Blacktino Queer Performance

Published by Duke University Press 2016

Blacktino Queer Performance

Edited by: E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822374657

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

"[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 more so) that, when these voices are heard together in the space of the same printed text, they mean more—and differently—than they would in the small theatre spaces where they were originally performed."

-- Shane Breaux Theatre Survey

"In bringing together the performance scripts of primarily Black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists working in the United States, the book offers a survey of some of the most arresting work in this rising field."

-- Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez Chiricú Journal

“This collection is a call for more collections that empower, (re)member, and advocate for queer people of color. It is an excellent choice for artists, activists, and academics interested in the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and sexuality (and more); cultural performances of power and resistance; and the potentiality of queer of color worldmaking.”

-- Robert Gutierrez-Perez Text and Performance Quarterly

“Blacktino Queer Performance is an essential read for scholars of performance, queer theory, and critical race studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach provides multiple perspectives through intertextual and intercultural critique.”

-- Sarah Stefana Smith CAA Reviews

"Blacktino Queer Performance serves as a timely consideration of the work of contemporary artists identifying as interracial and as queer, and as an interdisciplinary, lyrical imagining of the very notion of intersectionality."

-- Nevarez Encinias TDR: The Drama Review

“Blacktino decolonizes queer performance, emancipating it from the homonormative whiteness of mainstream queer theory. The work of Johnson and Rivera-Servera interjects a critical intervention into the fields of racial and queer performance studies…. Johnson and Rivera-Servera offer an in-depth cultural critique that engages a vast array of artists and scholars, and they challenge their readers to seek out queer performance outside of the pages of their volume.”

-- Kerry L. Goldmann Ufahamu

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Ethnoracial Intimacies in Blacktino Queer Performance E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I
The love conjure/blues Text Installation Sharon Bridgforth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
1. Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth’s The love conjure/blues Text Installation Matt Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
2. Interview with Sharon Bridgforth Sandra L. Richards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Part II
Machos Directed/developed by Coya Paz; created by Teatro Luna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
3. Voicing Masculinity Tamara Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
4. Interview with Coya Paz Patricia Ybarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Part III
Strange Fruit A Performance about Identity Politics E. Patrick Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
5. Passing Strange E. PATRICK JOHNSON’S STRANGE FRUIT Jennifer DeVere Brody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
6. Interview with E. Patrick Johnson Bernadette Marie Calafell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Part IV
Ah mén Javier Cardona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
7. Homosociality and Its Discontents Puerto Rican Masculinities in Javier Cardona’s Ah mén Celiany Rivera-Velázquez and Beliza Torres Narváez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
8. Interview with Javier Cardona Jossianna Arroyo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Part V
Dancin’ the Down Low Jeffrey Q. McCune Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
9. Queering Black Identity and Desire Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.’s Dancin’ the Down Low Lisa B. Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
Lisa B. Thompson • 320 10. Interview with Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr John Keene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Part VI
Cuban Hustle Cedric Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
11. Love and Money Performing Black Queer Diasporic Desire in Cuban Hustle Marlon M. Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
12. Interview with Cedric Brown D. Soyini Madison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Part VII
Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love Pamela Booker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
13. “Public Intimacy” Women- Loving-Women as Dramaturgical Transgressions Omi Osun and Joni L. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
14. Interview with Pamela Booker Tavia Nyong’o Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	454
Part VIII
Berserker Paul Outlaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
15. What’s Nat Turner Doing Up in Here with All These Queers? Paul Outlaw’s Berserker; A Black Gay Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing Blackness Charles I. Nero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	486
16. Interview with Paul Outlaw Vershawn Ashanti Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	498
Part IX
I Just Love Andy Gibb A Play in One Act Charles Rice-González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
17. Learning to Unlove Andy Gibb Race, Beauty, and the Erotics of Puerto Rican Black Queer Pedagogy Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	542
18. Interview with Charles Rice-González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	555
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	563
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 584
Illustrations
- Other: 23 illustrations

eBook

Published: May 19, 2016
ISBN: 9780822374657