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• catalog abstract "In Disappearing Acts Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and relationship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor's focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were pitted against the Argentine people in that nation's "Dirty War." Combining feminism, cultural studies, and performance theory, Taylor analyzes the political spectacles that comprised the war - concentration camps, torture, "disappearances"--As well as the rise of theatrical productions, demonstrations, and other performative practices that attempted to resist and subvert the Argentine military. Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written and staged - and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argue that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men - fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military's representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public - limiting its ability to respond. Those who challenged the dictatorship, from the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo to progressive theater practitioners, found themselves in what Taylor describes as "bad scripts." Describing the images, myths, performances, and explanatory narratives that have informed Argentina's national drama, Disappearing Acts offers a telling analysis of the aesthetics of violence and the disappearance of civil society during Argentina's spectacle of terror.".
• catalog contributor b10242467.
• catalog coverage "Argentina Politics and government 1955-1983.".
• catalog created "1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
• catalog description "1. Caught in the Spectacle -- 2. Gendering the National "Self" -- 3. Military Males, "Bad" Women, and a Dirty, Dirty War -- 4. The Theatre of Operations: Performing Nation-ness in the Public Sphere -- 5. Percepticide -- 6. Disappearing Bodies: Writing Torture and Torture as Writing -- 7. Trapped in Bad Scripts: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo -- 8. Staging Battles of Gender and Nation-ness: Teatro Abierto 1981 -- 9. Crossing the Line: Watching Violence in the "Other" Country.".
• catalog description "In Disappearing Acts Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and relationship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor's focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were pitted against the Argentine people in that nation's "Dirty War." Combining feminism, cultural studies, and performance theory, Taylor analyzes the political spectacles that comprised the war - concentration camps, torture, "disappearances"--As well as the rise of theatrical productions, demonstrations, and other performative practices that attempted to resist and subvert the Argentine military.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-303) and index.".
• catalog description "Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written and staged - and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argue that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men - fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military's representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public - limiting its ability to respond.".
• catalog description "Those who challenged the dictatorship, from the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo to progressive theater practitioners, found themselves in what Taylor describes as "bad scripts." Describing the images, myths, performances, and explanatory narratives that have informed Argentina's national drama, Disappearing Acts offers a telling analysis of the aesthetics of violence and the disappearance of civil society during Argentina's spectacle of terror.".
• catalog extent "xii, 309 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Disappearing acts.".
• catalog identifier "0822318687 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0822318776 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Disappearing acts.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Durham, NC : Duke University Press,".
• catalog relation "Disappearing acts.".
• catalog spatial "Argentina Politics and government 1955-1983.".
• catalog spatial "Argentina".
• catalog spatial "Argentina.".
• catalog subject "792/.0982/09045 20".
• catalog subject "Argentine drama 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Disappeared persons Argentina.".
• catalog subject "PN2451 .T28 1997".
• catalog subject "Theater Political aspects Argentina.".
• catalog subject "Violence Argentina History 20th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Caught in the Spectacle -- 2. Gendering the National "Self" -- 3. Military Males, "Bad" Women, and a Dirty, Dirty War -- 4. The Theatre of Operations: Performing Nation-ness in the Public Sphere -- 5. Percepticide -- 6. Disappearing Bodies: Writing Torture and Torture as Writing -- 7. Trapped in Bad Scripts: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo -- 8. Staging Battles of Gender and Nation-ness: Teatro Abierto 1981 -- 9. Crossing the Line: Watching Violence in the "Other" Country.".
• catalog title "Disappearing acts : spectacles of gender and nationalism in Argentina's "dirty war" / Diana Taylor.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".