Product Description: "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies...read more

Product Description: 'Love in Any Language' is the third book in the Nelson and Jeanette trilogy by Diana Taylor who has taken us through the ups and downs of the fictional lives of the much loved Hollywood Stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. As every true fan knows they should have married and lived their lives happily ever after but were prevented from doing so by the evil intervention of film mogul Louis B Mayer and Jeanette's mother, Anna MacDonald...read more

Product Description: If you area naturally deep thinker kind of a person,tough! Life was designed to be enjoyed and experienced and you can choose to reevaluate your attitude and personality at any time. As humans we choose our behaviors and can make adjustments to our attitudes as the need arises...read more

Product Description: Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated...read more

"An invaluable resource to teachers of Latin American theater, with texts that provide an accurate panorama of Latin American theater."---Adam Versenyi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"A most welcome and needed collection . . . Not only is it the first English-language anthology of theater and performance in Latin America from the Conquest onward, but it also includes excellent introductory and background material . . . certain to become an essential source book."---Marvin Carlson, City University of New York"A rich resource for teachers and students, and for everyone intrigued by the history of performing Latin America . . . Diana Taylor and Sarah Townsend locate an animating tension between indigenous and colonial performance practices, and between the irreducibly local character of performance and the insistent pressure---as visible in the sixteenth century as in the twenty-first---of a globalizing, often oppressive modernity."---W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityStages of Conflict brings together a vast array of dramatic texts, ambitiously tracing the intersection of theater and social and political life in the Americas over the past five centuries. Including eighteen works faithfully translated into English, the collection moves from a sixteenth century Mayan dance-drama to a 2003 production by the first published indigenous playwright in Mexico. Historical pieces from the sixteenth century to the present highlight the encounter between indigenous tradition and colonialism, while contributions from modern playwrights such as Virgilio Pinero, Jose Triana, and Denise Stolkos take on the tumultuous political and social upheavals of the past century.The editors have added comprehensive critical commentary that details the origins of each play, affording scholars and students of theater, performance studies, and Latin American studies the opportunity to view the history of a continent through its rich and diverse theatrical traditions.Diana Taylor is Director of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. Her books include the award-winning volume The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas.Sarah J. Townsend is a doctoral student at New York University.

Product Description: Artists paint with a variety of mediums, but poets use words to paint the pictures they want their readers to see. All around us are scenes to be enjoyed, emotions to be expressed, and events to commemorate. The author has touched on a wide number of subjects that will make you smile, sigh or shed a few tears, but in each poem the author shares her heart...read more

Product Description: Holy Terrors presents exemplary original work by fourteen of Latin America’s foremost contemporary women theatre and performance artists. Many of the pieces—including one-act plays, manifestos, and lyrics—appear in English for the first time...read more

Product Description: This bilingual collection of four of Diana Raznovich;s plays, 'Disconcerted', 'Inner Gardens', 'Matrix Inc', and 'Rear Entry' amply demonstrates the role of humor in dealing with a broad range of issues: relationships, sexuality, stereotypes, censorship, and the consumer society in which emotions are bought and sold...read more

Product Description: Defiant Acts/Actos Desafiantes presents four bilingual plays by one of Argentina's major playwrights/cartoonists: Diana Raznovich. Since the late 1960s, Raznovich's work both as a cartoonist and in the theater has been marked by her sense of humor and her love of disruption, inversion, critique, and the unexpected...read more

Product Description: This book demonstrates that nurses have made an important contribution to the advancement and expansion of women's health knowledge. Selecting the health issues of most importance to women, the editors have assembled leading nurse researchers to review, summarize, and critique nursing research within each area...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Perhaps the most deeply rooted stereotype of motherhood, editor Annelise Orleck writes, is "the notion that mothers are by definition apolitical, isolated with their children in a world of pure emotion, far removed from the welter of politics and social struggle...read more

Product Description: In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U. S. Latino performance: indigenous theater, performance art, living installations, carnival, public demonstrations, and gender acts such as transvestism...read more

Product Description: Latin American theatre is among the most innovative in the world today. The period 1965–1970 was one of intense theatrical production in the region. Dozens of major playwrights and collective theaters produced hundreds of highly original plays...read more