Performing Mother as Other: The Chiasmatic Intersections of Identity and Autoethnographic Performance

• In Event: Recasting the Latina Body: Text, Performance, and Audience

Abstract

In this paper, I conduct a performance criticism of the original performance piece Dos Fridas. Inspired by Frida Kahlo’s famous painting The Two Fridas, the performance was a collaboration between myself and a colleague. The performance centered on our negotiations of Mexican identity, and our relationships with our mothers. I argue that the performance extends the space between autoethnography and performance ethnography by revealing the chiasmatic intersections between self and other.

Author

• Elena Esquibel, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale