{"id":12120,"date":"2025-12-19T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=12120"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:03:20","slug":"artificial-savages-in-a-transcultural-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/artificial-savages-in-a-transcultural-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Artificial Savages in a Transcultural Landscape&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>Artificial Savages in a Transcultural Landscape<\/em>, forthcoming from Routledge\/Taylor &amp; Francis in April 2026,\u00a0explores the work of scholars and performance artists from the US and M\u00e9xico to expose the dire realities of white nationalist agendas in a global community.\u00a0William Stark&#8217;s monograph\u00a0examines\u00a0the ways in which\u00a0contemporary performance art intervenes in decolonial politics and border discourse through the\u00a0works\u00a0of Guillermo\u00a0G\u00f3mez\u2011Pe\u00f1a, Coco Fusco, Violeta Luna, Roberto Sifuentes, and La Pocha Nostra. Grounded in theories of hybridity, border gnosis, and artificial savagery, the book argues that these artists deploy the body as a critical site of resistance, knowledge production, and ethical encounter, using ritualized performance to expose colonial power structures and reimagine identity beyond fixed national or cultural boundaries. Situating these practices within a global context marked by rising authoritarianism and xenophobia, the study highlights performance as a vital convergence of art, activism, and epistemology, ultimately calling for a renewed humanities grounded in radical tenderness, transcultural dialogue, and the enduring capacity of creative expression to challenge power.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Humanities Subvention Grant<\/strong><br \/> <strong>William Stark (Modern &amp; Classical Languages &amp; Literatures)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":12121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f25grants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12151,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120\/revisions\/12151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}