LEADER 04671nam 22005655 450 001 9910484553503321 005 20200702165934.0 010 $a3-030-37409-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-37409-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011208541 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6172794 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-37409-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011208541 100 $a20200409d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerformances of Suffering in Latin American Migration $eHeroes, Martyrs and Saints /$fby Ana Elena Puga, Víctor M. Espinosa 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 372 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a3-030-37408-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis 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 Assistant 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 a sociologist specializing in transnational migration and art. Holding a Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University and is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University at Newark, he is the author of El dilema del retorno: Migración, género y pertenencia en un contexto transnacional (El Colegio de Michoacan, 1999) and Martín Ramírez: Framing His Life and Art (University of Texas Press, 2015). . 606 $aTheater 606 $aPerforming arts 606 $aGlobal/International Theatre and Performance$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415070 606 $aNational/Regional Theatre and Performance$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415080 606 $aContemporary Theatre$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415040 606 $aPerforming Arts$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415030 615 0$aTheater. 615 0$aPerforming arts. 615 14$aGlobal/International Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aNational/Regional Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aContemporary Theatre. 615 24$aPerforming Arts. 676 $a869.09352069 676 $a862.0093552 700 $aPuga$b Ana Elena$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01226380 702 $aEspinosa$b Víctor M$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484553503321 996 $aPerformances of Suffering in Latin American Migration$92847581 997 $aUNINA