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Author_Candice Amich
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Feminism
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Hemispheric
Human Rights
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Latin America
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Neoliberalism
Performance
Performance Art
Performance Studies
Poetry
Politics
Precarity
Protest Art
Resistance
Revolution
State Violence
Utopia
Vulnerability
Witness
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- ISBN 9780810141827
- Weight: 305g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2020
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry convey utopian desires even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national, linguistic, and generic boundaries, Amich identifies new political and affective modes of reception in her examination of resistant art forms. She locates texts in the activist struggles of the Global South, where neoliberal extraction and exploitation most palpably reanimate the colonial and imperial legacies of earlier stages of capitalism.
The poets and artists surveyed in Precarious Forms enact gestures of solidarity and mutual care at sites of neoliberal dispossession. In her analysis of poems, body art, and multimedia installations that illuminate the persistence of a radical utopian imaginary in the Americas, Amich engages critical debates in performance studies, Latin American cultural studies, literature, and art history.
The poets and artists surveyed in Precarious Forms enact gestures of solidarity and mutual care at sites of neoliberal dispossession. In her analysis of poems, body art, and multimedia installations that illuminate the persistence of a radical utopian imaginary in the Americas, Amich engages critical debates in performance studies, Latin American cultural studies, literature, and art history.
Candice Amich is an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
