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Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676
(2011)
This essay focuses on the work of Mexican/Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, whose main aesthetic principle lies in the criss-crossing of cultural, geographic and linguistic borders. Through his unique fusion of genres, discourses and media, Gómez-Peña creates a hybrid art form that also transgresses more conventional definitions of what constitutes culture. One of the central features of his "New World Border" (1992-1994) performance is the artistic transposition of site-specific border identities and texts to a global level; i.e., the border (and its transgression) becomes a metaphor to address a multiplicity of aesthetic, cultural and socio-political agendas. His performance "Temple of Confessions" (1994) aims, among others, at debunking the rather celebratory discourse of mainstream U.S. multiculturalism. In addition, his project of "reverse anthropology", which informs a number of his performance pieces, seeks to retain the resistance potential of minoritarian art by subverting hegemonic power hierarchies. As will be shown, his representational strategy of "as if" is used by Gómez-Peña and his collaborators to envision a postnational and transcultural spaciousness of the Americas.
"Make a Run for the Border": Chicano Performance Art and the Search for a Space of/for Difference
(2005)
Negotiating the global and the local : Leslie Marmon Silko's almanac of the dead as 'Glocal Fiction'
(2002)
This essay explores Leslie Marmon Silko's fictional negotiations of conflicting and overlapping discourses from Native American and Euroamerican cultures in the transnational contact spaces of the Americas. The dialogic juxtapositions of a variety of cultural practices, ranging from indigenous prophecies to the writings of Marx, are central aspects of the glocal formations in Silko's Almanac of the Dead. The novel furthermore functions as a cultural representation and projection of globalization-from-below, i.e., a transgressive social movement which counters the effects of neocolonial globalization by a critical inclusion of global and local forms of consciousness and agencies.