Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History - Brossura

Pryor, Jaclyn I.

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ISBN 10: 0810135302 ISBN 13: 9780810135307

Casa editrice: Northwestern Univ Pr, 2017

Riassunto

This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Jaclyn I. Pryor introduces the concept of "time slips," moments in which past, present, and future coincide, moments that challenge American narratives of racial and sexual citizenship.
 

Framing performance as a site of resistance, Pryor analyzes their own work and that of four other queer artists—Ann Carlson, Mary Ellen Strom, Peggy Shaw, and Lisa Kron—between 2001 and 2016. Pryor illuminates how each artist deploys performance as a tool to render history visible, trauma recognizable, and transformation possible by laying bare the histories and ongoing systems of violence woven deep into our society. Pryor also includes a case study that examines the challenges of teaching queer time and queer performance within the academy in what Pryor calls a post-9/11 “homeland” security state.
 
Masterfully synthesizing a wealth of research and experiences, Time Slips will interest scholars and readers in the fields of theater and performance studies, queer studies, and American studies.

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Informazioni sull'autore

JACLYN I. PRYOR is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Haverford College.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Northwestern Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0810135302
• ISBN 13: 9780810135307
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 184
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile