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Acts of Gaiety

Author : Sara Warner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472118533

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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, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism by recovering earlier mirthful modes of political performance. The book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s–70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety—including camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside "legitimate theater”-- at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era. Juxtaposing figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists including Hothead Paisan, Bitch and Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers, Sara Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging. Acts of Gaiety explores the mutually informing histories of gayness as politics and as joie de vivre, along with the centrality of liveliness to queer performance and protest.

Gaiety Chronicles

Author : John Hollingshead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNNUDT

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On the Way to Death

Author : Arthur Roy Eckardt
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1412830184

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On the Way to Death completes Eckardt's astonishing trilogy on the interrelationship of comedy, death, and God. It addresses itself to the question of death as the basic incongruity of life. Here is opened to human view the final divine comedy: a total reversal of the traditional roles assigned to God and humankind, a comical denouncement of the terror of death. On the Way to Death follows Sitting in the Earth and Laughing and How to Tell God From the Devil to complete A. Roy Eckardt's trilogy on comedy, the devil, and God. Soren Kierkegaard attests that "it is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic". Composed within this frame of reference, the foundation of this volume is its analysis of the terror of death for human beings. In this context, Eckardt maintains that the all-decisive truth is that humankind never asked to be, but has been thrown into existence. Accordingly, it is immoral - or even diabolical - to blame human beings for the terrible evils of life, including the specter of death. Human beings are proximately responsible for evil, but never ultimately responsible.

Queer Nuns

Author : Melissa M. Wilcox
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479847402

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An engaging look into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, queer activists devoted to social justice The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make up an unlikely order of nuns. Self-described as “twenty-first century queer nuns,” the Sisters began in 1979 when three bored gay men donned retired Roman Catholic nuns’ habits and went for a stroll through San Francisco’s gay Castro district. The stunned and delighted responses they received prompted these already-seasoned activists to consider whether the habits might have some use in social justice work, and within a year they had constituted the new order. Today, with more than 83 houses on four different continents, the Sisters offer health outreach, support, and, at times, protest on behalf of queer communities. In Queer Nuns, Melissa M. Wilcox offers new insights into the role the Sisters play across queer culture and the religious landscape. The Sisters both spoof nuns and argue quite seriously that they are nuns, adopting an innovative approach the author refers to as serious parody. Like any performance, serious parody can either challenge or reinforce existing power dynamics, and it often accomplishes both simultaneously. The book demonstrates that, through the use of this strategy, the Sisters are able to offer an effective, flexible, and noteworthy approach to community-based activism. Serious parody ultimately has broader applications beyond its use by the Sisters. Wilcox argues that serious parody offers potential uses and challenges in the efforts of activist groups to work within communities that are opposed and oppressed by culturally significant traditions and organizations – as is the case with queer communities and the Roman Catholic Church. This book opens the door to a new world of religion and social activism, one which could be adapted to a range of political movements, individual inclinations, and community settings.

the theatre.

Author : clement scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555064045

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The Theatre

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Actors
ISBN : CUB:U183021647964

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Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.

THE ERA ALMANACK

Author : EDWARD LEDGER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555075985

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Queer Nightlife

Author : Kemi Adeyemi,Kareem Khubchandani,Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054787

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Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark

The Feeling of Kinship

Author : David L. Eng
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822392828

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In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of “queer liberalism”—the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our “colorblind” age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom and progress, one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark legal decision overturning Texas’s antisodomy statute, Eng reveals how the ghosts of miscegenation haunt both Lawrence and the advent of queer liberalism. Eng develops the concept of “queer diasporas” as a critical response to queer liberalism. A methodology drawing attention to new forms of family and kinship, accounts of subjects and subjectivities, and relations of affect and desire, the concept differs from the traditional notions of diaspora, theories of the nation-state, and principles of neoliberal capitalism upon which queer liberalism thrives. Eng analyzes films, documentaries, and literature by Asian and Asian American artists including Wong Kar-wai, Monique Truong, Deann Borshay Liem, and Rea Tajiri, as well as a psychoanalytic case history of a transnational adoptee from Korea. In so doing, he demonstrates how queer Asian migrant labor, transnational adoption from Asia, and the political and psychic legacies of Japanese internment underwrite narratives of racial forgetting and queer freedom in the present. A focus on queer diasporas also highlights the need for a poststructuralist account of family and kinship, one offering psychic alternatives to Oedipal paradigms. The Feeling of Kinship makes a major contribution to American studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, psychoanalysis, and queer theory.

The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy

Author : Billy J. Harbin,Kim Marra,Robert A. Schanke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Actors
ISBN : 047206858X

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Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

The Theater

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118228522

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The Era Annual

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Actors
ISBN : UIUC:30112077171947

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The Era Almanack

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Actors
ISBN : HARVARD:HNV8WP

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