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Author:
Farfan, Penny, author.
Title:
Performing queer modernism / Penny Farfan.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xiii, 138 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Gays in the performing arts.
Homosexuality in the theater.
English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
American drama.
English drama.
Gays in the performing arts.
Homosexuality in the theater.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- "This feverish, jealous attachment of Paula's for Ellean": homosocial desire and the production of queer modernism -- "Fairy of light": performative ghosting and the queer uncanny -- "Without the assistance of any girls": queer sex and the shock of the new -- "I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives": popular Plato, queer heterosexuality, comic form -- "What are you trying to say?" "I'm saying it": queer performativity in and across time -- Epilogue: "what is termed sin is an essential element of progress."
ISBN:
0190679697
9780190679699
0190679700
9780190679705
OCLC:
(OCoLC)971513698
LCCN:
2016052218
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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