Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction: Utopian Interventions and Their Relevance in the Contemporary Americas....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
A New (Anti) Manifesto for the Americas. Version 2015....Pages 25-42
tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house....Pages 43-69
Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, and the Urban Body in Crisis....Pages 71-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Writing. First. Contacts?....Pages 89-97
Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish....Pages 99-109
Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement....Pages 111-129
Utopic Cannibalism in Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, and Takumã Kuikuro’s As Hiper Mulheres ....Pages 131-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Real Utopias....Pages 151-160
No Suture: Rethinking Utopia Through J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, the Occupy Movement, and Idle No More....Pages 161-191
Utopian Discourse and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkin’s and Curtis Hanson’s Too Big to Fail, and Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Todo lo que era sólido ....Pages 193-217
 El Che de los Gays and Hija de Perra: Utopian Queer Performances in Postdictatorship Chile....Pages 219-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Could Bilingual Radio Be Utopian? Latin American Sound Performance Through Radio in Western Canada....Pages 241-259
Revisiting Utopias from the 1970s in Argentine Cinema (2003–2012)....Pages 261-281
The Utopian Impulse in the Videos of Pola Weiss (Mexico City, 1977–1990)....Pages 283-300
Utopia in Ruins: The Ochagavía Hospital....Pages 301-313
Back Matter....Pages 315-323