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Blacktino Queer Performance
E. Patrick Johnson
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Description for Blacktino Queer Performance
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Johnson, E. Patrick; Rivera-Servera, Ramon H. Num Pages: 584 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFSK; JFSL3; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 850.
Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art. The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices. As the volume's framing device, "blacktino" grounds the specificities of black and brown social and political relations while allowing the contributors to maintain the goals of queer-of-color critique. Whether interrogating constructions of Latino masculinity, ... Read more
Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art. The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices. As the volume's framing device, "blacktino" grounds the specificities of black and brown social and political relations while allowing the contributors to maintain the goals of queer-of-color critique. Whether interrogating constructions of Latino masculinity, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
584
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
849g
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360650
SKU
V9780822360650
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About E. Patrick Johnson
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.
Reviews for Blacktino Queer Performance
"[T]he Blacktino works as presented in this collection rankle and disturb, taunt and tantalize, ripping back skin and exposing raw nerves like no other."
Timothy Francis Barry
Brooklyn Rail
"A groundbreaking project...."
Claudia Sofía Garriga-López
TSQ
"It is not only that all these voices matter and deserve to be heard but also (and even ... Read more
Timothy Francis Barry
Brooklyn Rail
"A groundbreaking project...."
Claudia Sofía Garriga-López
TSQ
"It is not only that all these voices matter and deserve to be heard but also (and even ... Read more