Román / David Roman Performance in America

Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8744-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Reihe: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

Argues for the centrality of theater and performance in the American national imaginary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Román, David

David Roman, Roman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: Here and Now 1

1. Not About AIDS 49

2. Visa Denied: Chay Yew's Theatre of Immigration and the Performance of Asian American History 78

3. Latino Genealogies: Broadway and Beyond — the Case of John Leguizamo 109

4. Archival Drags; or, the Afterlife of Performance 137

5. Cabaret as Cultural History: Popular Song and Public Performance in America 179

6. Tragedy and the Performing Arts in the Wake of September 11, 2001 226

Afterword: The Time of Your Life 281

Notes 311

Bibliography 333

Index 345

Über Autor(innen)

David Román is Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS and a coeditor of O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance.