Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration: Heroes, Martyrs and Saints
Autor Ana Elena Puga, Víctor Espinosaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 apr 2020
This book questions the reliance on melodrama and spectacle in social performances and cultural productions by and about migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Focusing on archetypal characters with nineteenth-century roots that recur in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries – heroic saviors, saintly mothers and struggling fathers, martyred children and rebellious youth – it shows how theater practitioners, filmmakers, visual artists, advocates, activists, journalists, and others who want to help migrants often create migrant melodramas, performances that depict their heroes as virtuous victims at the mercy of evil villains.
In order to gain respect for the human rights that are supposedly already theirs on paper and participate in a global market that trades in performances of suffering, migrants themselves sometimes accept the roles into which they are cast, or even cast themselves. Some express their suffering publicly, often on demand. Others find ways to twist, parody, resist, or reject migrant melodrama.
Heather S. Nathans
Alice and Nathan Gantcher Professor in Judaic Studies
Tufts University
In their penetrating analysis, Puga and Espinosa show how militarized borders, neoliberal economics, exclusionary immigration policies, and rising nativism have combined to create an ongoing melodrama in which migrants, journalists, and rescuers perform scripted roles as martyrs, saints, and heroes in an effort to sway a global audience of onlookers. Although the protagonists in this melodrama seek to relieve the suffering of migrants by valorizing their pain and using it as a currency in a political economy of suffering, the authors’ sympathetic but critical analysis reveals both the promise and perils of this emotive strategy. Their analysis is essential to understanding how immigration is portrayed and perceived in the world today.
Douglas S. Massey
Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University
Ana Elena Puga and Víctor M. Espinosa’s Performances of Suffering is well-researched and compellingly theorized collaboration which reveals the affective labor performed by, withand for migrants in the United States and Mexico. In these perilous times, the lessons that this book teaches us about the performance of melodrama as a key aspect of obtaining justice and care for migrants throughout the hemisphere are crucial to understanding representations of “migrant crises” in our contemporary social media, performance and advocacy movements.
Patricia Ybarra
Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Brown University
In this fascinating book, Puga and Espinosa illuminate the political economy of suffering among Latin American migrants. This is a timely and important work to understand how migrants, the state, humanitarian workers, and the media all perform the melodrama of the suffering migrant. An impressive and provocative book!
Carolyn Chen
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
University of California at Berkeley
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783030374082
ISBN-10: 3030374084
Pagini: 372
Ilustrații: XV, 372 p. 23 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3030374084
Pagini: 372
Ilustrații: XV, 372 p. 23 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Rescue.- Chapter 2:Heroic and Empathic Rescuers in Foundational Migrant Melodrama.- Chapter 3: Rescuers as Saints and Martyrs in Contemporary Migrant Melodrama.- Part 2: Mothers and Fathers.- Chapter 4: Madre Dolorosa: Casting Competitions in Mother Activism.- Chapter 5: Wounded Warriors: Corrective Castings in Male Activism.- Part 3: Children and Youth.- Chapter 6: Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Orphan-Martyrs in Motion.- Chapter 7: DREAMer Youth Artist-Activists: Queering Migrant Melodrama.- Chapter 8:Epilogue.
Recenzii
“It is refreshing to see that this book gives sufficient attention to migrants from the isthmus and others from South America who employ the same route through Central America and Mexico.” (Mauricio Espinoza, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 97 (6), August, 2021)
Notă biografică
Ana Elena Puga is an Associate Professor at the Departments of Theatre and Spanish & Portuguese at The Ohio State University. A scholar, translator, and dramaturge, she is the author of Allegory, Memory, and Testimony: Upstaging Dictatorship (Routledge 2008) and Finished from the Start and Other Plays by Juan Radrigan (Northwestern University Press 2008).
Víctor M. Espinosa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. A sociologist specializing in transnational migration and art, he is the author of El dilema del retorno (El Colegio de Michoacán 1999) and Martín Ramírez: Framing His Life and Art (University of Texas Press 2015).
Textul de pe ultima copertă
This book questions the reliance on melodrama and spectacle in social performances and cultural productions by and about migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Focusing on archetypal characters with nineteenth-century roots that recur in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries – heroic saviors, saintly mothers and struggling fathers, martyred children and rebellious youth – it shows how theater practitioners, filmmakers, visual artists, advocates, activists, journalists, and others who want to help migrants often create migrant melodramas, performances that depict their heroes as virtuous victims at the mercy of evil villains.
In order to gain respect for the human rights that are supposedly already theirs on paper and participate in a global market that trades in performances of suffering, migrants themselves sometimes accept the roles into which they are cast, or even cast themselves. Some express their suffering publicly, often on demand. Others find ways to twist, parody, resist, or reject migrant melodrama.
Ana Elena Puga is an Associate Professor at the Departments of Theatre and Spanish & Portuguese at The Ohio State University. A scholar, translator, and dramaturge, she is the author of Allegory, Memory, and Testimony: Upstaging Dictatorship (Routledge 2008) and Finished from the Start and Other Plays by Juan Radrigan (Northwestern University Press 2008).
Víctor M. Espinosa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. A sociologist specializing in transnational migration and art, he is the author of El dilema del retorno (El Colegio de Michoacán 1999) and Martín Ramírez: Framing His Life and Art (University of Texas Press 2015).
Caracteristici
Continues longstanding efforts to help denaturalize migrant suffering and promote migrant rights Demonstrates how nineteenth-century subgenres – the race melodrama, domestic melodrama, and sensation melodrama – in fact still structure the way we think today Cuts across a wide variety of genres and media, including theater/performance, poetry, film, news media accounts, and social performances in daily life