Ghosts: boias-frias, she-wolf, and dolls in performance
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ghosts, performance, sugarcane cutters, she-wolf, dollsAbstract
“What is a ghost but the re-appeared, or restored enactment that Schechner defines as performance?”, asks Diana Taylor. Worlds in performance emerge when the dead and alive brush against each other. According to Avery Gordon, a ghost may give access to the marginalized, suppressed, trivialized, and negated. A ghostly image, which is manifested as an absence, or as the presence of an absence, forgotten yet vital, may interrupt the course of things. A deviation is produced, possibly shedding light on our current condition, and allowing us to see things which we had not previously seen. In this article, I intend to discuss three field studies involving sugarcane cutters, a she-wolf, and riverbank dolls in performance. In each of them, I am haunted by images that flash up unexpectedly presenting, perhaps, as Walter Benjamin might say, “a revolutionary chance in the fight for the oppressed past”.
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