Prologue: Jumping the Fence ix
1. !Presente! 1
2. Enacting Refusal: Political Animatives 45
3. Camino Largo: The Zapatistas' Long Road toward Autonomy 67
4. Making Presence 105
5. Traumatic Memes 127
6. We Have Always Been Queer 153
7. Tortuous Routes: Four Walks through Villa Grimaldi 175
8. Dead Capital 203
9. The Decision Dilemma 226
Epilogue 245
Notes 251
Bibliography 299
Index 321
Diana Taylor is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the author and editor of several books, including Performance; The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas; and Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War," all also published by Duke University Press. Taylor was founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics from 1998 to 2020. In 2018 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"Diana Taylor advances a timely and necessary theorization of the
politics of performance, delivering nuanced and heartfelt analysis
of the creative strategies of artists and activists who labor to
intervene in historical and contemporary injustices across the
Americas. Showcasing Taylor as a scholar, activist, and accomplice
present at the site of performance, !Presente! is an
intellectually brilliant and crucial model of politically engaged
theory." -- Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, coeditor of * Blacktino Queer
Performance *
"A major project drawn from a life's work of travel, searching,
introspection, and unceasing political commitment to and
collaborations with artists and activists, !Presente! is a
work of great power, poetics, and political impact." -- Josh Kun,
University of Southern California Annenberg School of
Communication
"For a work so theoretically rigorous, !Presente! stands out
for its wide legibility. By foregoing unnecessary academic jargon
and taking pains to explain her own ethical entanglements in plain
English, Taylor's scholarship makes for a surprisingly smooth read,
though it is at times heartbreaking: she does not minimize the
grimmer aspects of her subject matter, which include devastating
accounts of kidnappings, torture, and genocide. The uninitiated
reader will find her writing clear and unpretentious, and may
discover that her gloss of the postcolonial canon does much to
demystify." -- Sam Adrien Smith * Full Stop *
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