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вЂњTo purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or RoutledgeвЂ™s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to В© 2000 Coco Fusco selection and editorial matter individual chapters, the contributors The right of Coco Fusco to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995).Д¬ORPUS DELECTI PERFORMANCE ART OF THE AMERICASДЇirst published 2000 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer and the. It is at once a significant intervention into the history and analysis of contemporary art and an ensemble piece of textual and visual work to treasure. They include: Д«ody art carpa vaudeville staged political protest tropicalist musical comedies the Chicano Art Movement queer Latino performance.Д¬orpus Delecti probes for the first time the specific contexts which have shaped Latin American performance.

Coco Fusco has brought together artists and scholars to bridge the theory/ practice divide and to discuss a wide range of genres. Nowhere else has such a vibrant and rich collection of writings and documents been fused into a comprehensive archive-volume. Using photos, scripts, essays, and poetry, Corpus Delecti explores the impact on performance of Latin American politics, popular culture, and syncretic religions.

Assembled and edited by one of the foremost practitioners and theorists in the field, it charts the extraordinary range of practices, narratives, and theories which make up this unique area of contemporary performance. Corpus Delecti is an unprecedented event in the history of Latino performance art.

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