Blacktino queer performance / edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, E. Patrick, 1967- editor.

Rivera-Servera, Ramón H., 1973- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people and the performing arts--United States.

Gay people and the performing arts.

Homosexuality in the theater--United States.

Homosexuality in the theater.

Gay theater--United States.

Gay theater.

Hispanic American theater--United States.

Hispanic American theater.

African American theater--United States.

African American theater.

Performance.

Critical pedagogy.

United States.

Physical Description:

573 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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, theorizing the black queer male experience, or examining black lesbian relationships, the contributors present blacktino queer performance as an artistic, critical, political, and collaborative practice. These scripts, interviews, and essays not only accentuate the value of blacktino as a reading device; they radiate the possibilities for thinking through the concepts of blacktino, queer, and performance across several disciplines. Blacktino Queer Performance reveals the inevitable flirtations, frictions, and seductions that mark the contours of any ethnoracial love affair. Book jacket.

Contents:

Ethnoracial intimacies in Blacktino queer performance / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

The love conjure/blues text installation / Sharon Bridgforth

Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth's the love conjure/bluestext installation / Matt richardson

Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Sandra L. Richards

Machos / Teatro Luna

Voicing masculinity / Tamara Roberts

Interview with Coya Paz / Patricia Ybarra

Strange fruit: a performance about identity politics / E. Patrick Johnson

Passing strange: E. Patrick Johnson's strange fruit / Jennifer DeVere Brody

Interview with E. Patrick Johnson / Bernadette Marie Calafell

Ah-mè́n / Javier Cardona ; translated by Andreea Micu and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Homosociality and its discontents: Puerto Rican masculinities in Javier Cardona's Ah-mén / Celiany Rivera-Vel zquez and Beliza Torres Narváez

Interview with Javier Cardona / Jossianna Arroyo ; translated by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Dancin' the Down Low / Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.

Queering Black identity and desire: Jeffrey Q. Mccune Jr.'s Dancin' the down low / Lisa B. Thompson

Interview with Jeffrey Q. Mccune jr. / John Keene

Cuban hustle / Cedric Brown

Love and money: performing Black queer diasporic desire in Cuban hustle / Marlon M. Bailey

Interview with Cedric Brown / D. Soyini Madison

Seens from the unexpectedness of love / Pamela Booker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822360506

0822360500

9780822360650

0822360659

9780822374657

082237465X

OCLC:

914228356