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The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (review)

Diana Taylor’s new book promises to spend more time doing performance studies than debating how to define it. Therefore, following an introduction to key terms and their definitions, it moves quickly into a series of nuanced and sophisticated arguments about a fascinating range of performances past and present from the American hemisphere. The methodology of performance studies, as Taylor explains, looks at paradigms of human events that contain recognizable elements of narrative and plot but that also attend to theatrical elements such as setup and action, as well as to the specifics of social, economic, and political contexts.