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Angora Matta
Marta Elena Savigliano
其他書名
Fatal Acts of North-South Translation
出版
Wesleyan University Press
, 2003-09-04
主題
Performing Arts / Dance / General
Social Science / Gender Studies
Music / General
ISBN
0819565997
9780819565990
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BQi0QgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Angora Matta is a bilingual (Spanish/English) and interdisciplinary work that adopts performative writing to reflect on the transnational politics of culture. Part I is an introduction co-authored by a tango-opera librettist and a central character in her libretto, offering two contending versions of how this book came into being. Part II is the libretto for the tango-opera Angora Matta, a critical view of Argentina’s contemporary history conceived as a surreal and tragic thriller. Part III contains feminist scholarly essays written by three other characters who appear in the libretto: Elvira Diaz is a dance ethnographer disenchanted with her profession; Manuela Malva is a biting foreign-film critic invested in de-mystifying exotic renderings of the Argentine tango world; Angora Matta, the assassin for hire, closes the book with philosophico-poetic preoccupations about her profession. An innovative blend of scholarship and art, Angora Matta is both critique of and antidote to the representational practices of ethnography that have fetishized “other” cultures by isolating them from contemporary history and the global flow of international politics.