Acts of Gaiety LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure

• Yazar: Warner, Sara (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2012
• Konular: Gender studies, gender groups; Theater and Performance; Sexuality Studies; American Studies; Cultural Studies
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Özet

Acts of Gaiety explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious struggles for revolutionary change. The book explores antics such as camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of "legitimate theater." Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously by mainstream society, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism.

ISBN

mpub.4845841
9780472904129
9780472118533
9780472035670

Erişim

Open Access