Acts of Gaiety LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure

• Autore principale: Warner, Sara (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2012
• Soggetti: Gender studies, gender groups; Theater and Performance; Sexuality Studies; American Studies; Cultural Studies
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Riassunto

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

Accesso

Open Access