Sonic cultural citizenship through performance: CASA 0101's production of Josefina López's Detained in the Desert

This essay listens to aurality in conjunction with the visual classification of racialized bodies in neoliberal citizenship through what I term "sonic cultural citizenship." Through a close listening to the 2010 production of Josefina López's Detained in the Desert at CASA 0101, the e...

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Published in:	Text and performance quarterly Vol. 37; no. 3-4; pp. 203 - 219
Main Author:	McMahon, Marci R.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Villanova Routledge 02-10-2017 Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:	Affect Citizenship Deserts Drama Latin American literature latinidad Latinx theater Lopez, Josefina (1969- ) Neoliberalism Race sonic citizenship Sound
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Summary:	This essay listens to aurality in conjunction with the visual classification of racialized bodies in neoliberal citizenship through what I term "sonic cultural citizenship." Through a close listening to the 2010 production of Josefina López's Detained in the Desert at CASA 0101, the essay amplifies racism as operating through affective performative dimensions, where citizenship is renegotiated and resisted through sonic performance. Detained centers the necessity of unhinging visual and sonic markers of citizenship for Latinx communities. It also evokes how sonic performance needs not only to decenter racial visibility in the Américas, but also to offer non-heteronormative frameworks of belonging.
ISSN:	1046-2937 1479-5760
DOI:	10.1080/10462937.2017.1406611