1435  Angora Matta: Marta Savigliano's new book

Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:36:10 -0600
From: Tom Stermitz <Stermitz@RAGTIME.ORG>
Subject: Angora Matta: Marta Savigliano's new book

Angora Matta
Fatal Acts of North-South Translation
Savigliano, Marta Elena

Operatic, ethnographic thriller tests the boundaries between art and
scholarship.

Angora Matta is a bilingual (Spanish/English) and interdisciplinary
work that adopts performative writing to reflect on the transnational
politics of culture. Part I is an introduction co-authored by a
tango-opera librettist and a central character in her libretto,
offering two contending versions of how this book came into being.
Part II is the libretto for the tango-opera Angora Matta, a critical
view of Argentina's contemporary history conceived as a surreal and
tragic thriller. Part III contains feminist scholarly essays written
by three other characters who appear in the libretto: Elvira Diaz is
a dance ethnographer disenchanted with her profession; Manuela Malva
is a biting foreign-film critic invested in de-mystifying exotic
renderings of the Argentine tango world; Angora Matta, the assassin
for hire, closes the book with philosophico-poetic preoccupations
about her profession. An innovative blend of scholarship and art,
Angora Matta is both critique of and antidote to the representational
practices of ethnography that have fetishized "other" cultures by
isolating them from contemporary history and the global flow of
international politics.

Review from:
https://www.dartmouth.edu/acad-inst/upne/0-8195-6598-9.html

Apparently the book comes out July, 2003.

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Tom Stermitz
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stermitz@tango.org
303-388-2560