(Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions: Spanish American Performance, Experimental Writing, and the Critique of Political Confusion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815332725)

Foregrounding a strategy of experimental techniques which Neustadt call (con)fusing signs, the book explores critical and political dimensions of contemporary Spanish American artistic practices that are often explained away in the vague name of postmodern fragmentation. ( Con)Fusing Signs explores the techniques, consequences and purposes for this type of fragmentation. This study reassesses the much discussed crisis of representation through an analysis of the complexity of political critique in areas as diverse (and related) as postmodernity, military dictatorship and postcolonialism. This book explores the manner in which multimedia artists Diamela Eltit, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Guillermo G-mez-Pe-a articulate political critiques through textual (con)fusion while paradoxically underscoring their inability to get outside of discourse.

Author: Robert Neustadt
ISBN-10: 0815332726
ISBN-13: 9780815332725
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1999
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.34w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 188