The Art of Solidarity
Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America
(University of Texas Press, 2018)
ART 206
Examining artistic production in solidarity movements throughout the Cold War era, this multidisciplinary anthology reveals the tremendous role that art and performance have played in the quest for social justice in the Americas.
“This is the most dynamic and methodologically creative book I have read in any language on the cultural Cold War in the Americas. The editors have assembled eight stellar chapters (plus an introduction and epilogue) that combine analyses of cultural practices nationally and in contexts of transnational solidarities. In ranging theoretical and methodological contexts, the editors and contributors are concerned with the forms by which solidarity movements have been shaped by the arts, and vice versa. Solidarity, the editor’s note, presupposes empathy […]. and empathy is at the core of what the editors are out to discover. “Authors in this volume advocate vigorously for the examination of empathy as an embodied form of social and political action” (6). But this book is much more. Each chapter is a remarkable methodological workshop on the intersections of art and solidarity—how art is done as transnational solidarity,”
(Description Source: University of Texas Press, David Sheinin)
Author
Jessica Stites Mor is an associate professor of History at The University of British Columbia (Okanagan). She received her PhD in history at Yale University in 2008. She was a visiting fellow at the Instituto Ravignani of the Universidad de Buenos Aires from 2004-2007. She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is author of Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left since 1968 (Pittsburgh, 2012), co-editor of El Pasado que miramos (The Past We View, Paídos, 2009) with Claudia Feld, and editor of Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America (Wisconsin, 2013). She has also co-edited a special issue on South-South Solidarity for the Journal of Latin American and Iberian Research (2014), and authored several other journal articles.
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