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Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure
Sara Warner
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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 theatre, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of ""legitimate theatre."" 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.
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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 theatre, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of ""legitimate theatre."" 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.
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Product Details
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472035670
SKU
V9780472035670
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About Sara Warner
Sara Warner is Faculty Fellow at Harvard University and an Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell, USA.
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