Johnson / Rivera-Servera Blacktino Queer Performance

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7465-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten

Containing nine performance scripts by black and Latino/a queer playwrights and performance artists—each accompanied by an interview and essay, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of sexuality, blackness, and Latinidad.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, E. Patrick

Rivera-Servera, Ramón H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Ethnoracial Intimacies in Blacktino Queer Performance / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 1

Part I. The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Sharon Bridgforth 21

1. Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth's The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Matt Richardson 62

2. Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Sandra L. Richards 78

Part II. Machos / Teatro Luna 89

3. Voicing Masculinity / Tamara Roberts 154

4. Interview with Coya Paz / Patricial Ybarra 167

Part III. Strange Fruit: A Performance about Identity Politics / E. Patrick Johnson 179

5. Passing Strange: E. Patrick Johnson's Strange Fruit / Jennifer DeVere Brody 213

6. Interview with E. Patrick Johnson / Bernadette Marie Calafell 229

Part IV. Ah mén / Javier Cardona, translated by Micu and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 243

7. Homosociality and Its Discontents: Puerto Rican Masculinities in Javier Cardona's Ah mén / Celiany Rivera-Velázquez and Beliza Torres Narváez 264

8. Interview with Javier Cardona / Jossianna Arroyo, translated by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 275

Part V. Dancin' the Down Low / Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. 285

9. Queering Black Identity and Desire: Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr.'s Dancin' the Down Low / Lisa B. Thompson 230

10. Interview with Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr. / John Keene 331

Part VI. Cuban Hustle / Cedric Brown 345

11. Love and Money: Performing Black Queer Diasporic Desire in Cuban Hustle / Marlon M. Bailey 372

12. Interview with Cedric Brown / D. Soyini Madison 387

Part VII. Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love / Pamela Booker 395

13. "Public Intimacy": Women-Loving-Women as Dramaturgical Transgressions / Omi Osun Joni L. Jones 439

14. Interview with Pamela Booker / Tavia Nyong'o 454

Part VIII. Berserker / Paul Outlaw 461

15. What's Nat Turner Doing Up in Here with All These Queers? Paul Outlaw's Beserker; A Black Gay Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing Blackness / Charles I. Nero 486

16. Interview with Paul Outlaw / Vershawn Ashanti Young 498

Part IX. I Just Love Andy Gibb: A Play in One Act / Charles Rice-González 509

17. Learning to Unlove Andy Gibb: Race, Beauty, and the Erotics of Puerto Rican Black Queer Pedagogy / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 542

18. Interview with Charles Rice-González / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 555

Contributors 563

Index 569

Über Autor(innen)

E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, also published by Duke University Press.

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics.