| 书目名称 | Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration | | 副标题 | Heroes, Martyrs and | | 编辑 | Ana Elena Puga,Víctor M. Espinosa | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Continues longstanding efforts to help denaturalize migrant suffering and promote migrant rights.Demonstrates how nineteenth-century subgenres – the race melodrama, domestic melodrama, and sensation m | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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. . .Timely, beautifully written, and deeply researched, Puga’s and Espinosa’s study captures the complex nuances of how performance scho | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | Trade; Rights; Political economy; Melodrama; Race; Martyr; Catholic church; HBO; Spectacle; Tragedy; Activism; | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37409-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-37411-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-37409-9 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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