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Another piece uses text and photographs to describe an act performed in Europe and the U.S. Here, Gómez-Peña places himself in a small gilded or bamboo cage in the middle of a busy plaza or shopping mall and presents himself as an "exotic multicultural specimen" who can be "activated" by shoppers who want to witness his "incredible ethnic talents." Such talents include modeling traditional Indian garb, doing commercials for organic products, and "posing in attitudes of martyrdom, despair, and poverty"--essentially behaving in any way that spectators expect their "primitives" to act--allowing Gómez-Peña to make a statement about how cultural identities are often presented as commodities.
This American Book Award-winning collection of essays, poems, performance texts, photographs, and "prophesies for the coming century" is by turns outlandish, illuminating, wickedly clever, and unabashedly serious. A frenetic artist, satirist, and phrasemaker, Gómez-Peña is able to convey the electricity and inventiveness of his live shows through heavy doses of humor, irony, and word play. Gómez-Peña's aim is to establish a common middle ground among North Americans; until a seamless North America becomes a reality, however, Gómez-Peña will continue to live on the border--and would like to see us all there. --Shawn Carkonen
| AUTHOR: | Guillermo Gomez-Pena |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | City Lights Books |
| ISBN: | 0872863131 |
| TYPE: | General, Hispanic American Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary collections, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Millennialism, Multiculturalism, National characteristics, Amer, National characteristics, American, Sociology, United States |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |