... An emergence of performance art in postwar Central America facilitated a critical approach to gender, sexuality, and desire beyond the right-/left-wing rhetoric of decades prior. Through embodied acts, artists expose the coloniality of gender and unravel how heteropatriarchal culture...

... of Central American artworks reveal what the chapter describes as “shifting the border”—an act of visual disobedience that creates countercartographies of migration and recenters the right to freedom of mobility. By shifting the border, these artworks instead highlight the physical journeys and landscape...

...Preface<subtitle>Framing the Problem: American Africanisms, American Indianisms, and the Processes of Art History</subtitle> ...