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Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
Sara Warner
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Hardcover. The importance of pleasure, humor, and frivolity in shaping LGBT lives and activism Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFSK1; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
Acts of Gaiety explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious struggles for revolutionary change. The book explores antics such as camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theatre, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of ""legitimate theatre."" 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 by mainstream society, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of ""gaiety"" as a political value for LGBT activism.
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Acts of Gaiety explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious struggles for revolutionary change. The book explores antics such as camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theatre, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of ""legitimate theatre."" 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 by mainstream society, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of ""gaiety"" as a political value for LGBT activism.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118533
SKU
V9780472118533
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About Sara Warner
Sara Warner is Assistant Professor, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University.
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