{"product_id":"chocolate-woman-dreams-the-milky-monique-mojica-9780472076215","title":"Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance","description":"This volume documents the creation of \u003ci\u003eChocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way\u003c\/i\u003e, a play written and performed by Monique Mojica with collaborators from diverse disciplines. Inspired by the pictographic writing and mola textiles of the Guna, an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, the book explores Mojica's unique approach to the performance process. Her method activates an Indigenous theatrical process that privileges the body in contrast to Western theater's privileging of the written text, and rethinks the role of land, body, and movement, as well as dramatic story-structure and performance style. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Co-authored with anthropologist Brenda Farnell, the book challenges the divide between artist and scholar, and addresses the many levels of cultural, disciplinary, and linguistic translations required to achieve this. Placing the complex intellect inherent to Indigenous Knowledges at its center, the book engages Indigenous performance theory, and concepts that link body, land, and story, such as \u003ci\u003eterra nullius\/corpus nullius\u003c\/i\u003e, mapping, pattern literacy, land literacy, and movement literacy. Enhanced by contributions from other artists and scholars, the book challenges Eurocentric ideologies about what counts as \"performance\" and what is required from an \"audience,\" as well as long-standing body-mind dualisms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Monique Mojica, Brenda Farnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472076213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472076215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Monique Mojica","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45476846108927,"sku":"9780472076215","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea7d1aff-18f6-4b7a-87fc-4a9cf87d24c7.jpg?v=1715918327","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chocolate-woman-dreams-the-milky-monique-mojica-9780472076215","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}