¡Presente!: The Politics of Presence

by Diana Taylor

Book Overview

In Presente Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps presente at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist extractivism and forced migration in the Americas. Presente...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478009446
• ISBN13: 9781478009443
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.4"