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Performing Queer Modernism
Penny Farfan
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Description for Performing Queer Modernism
Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages, 18 haltones. BIC Classification: AN; ASD; AVA; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Focusing on some of the best-known and most visible stage plays and dance performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Penny Farfan's interdisciplinary study demonstrates that queer performance was integral to and productive of modernism, that queer modernist performance played a key role in the historical emergence of modern sexual identities, and that it anticipated, and was in a sense foundational to, the insights of contemporary queer modernist studies. Chapters on works from Vaslav Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun to Noel Coward's Private Lives highlight manifestations of and suggest ways of reading queer modernist performance. Together, these case ... Read more
Focusing on some of the best-known and most visible stage plays and dance performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Penny Farfan's interdisciplinary study demonstrates that queer performance was integral to and productive of modernism, that queer modernist performance played a key role in the historical emergence of modern sexual identities, and that it anticipated, and was in a sense foundational to, the insights of contemporary queer modernist studies. Chapters on works from Vaslav Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun to Noel Coward's Private Lives highlight manifestations of and suggest ways of reading queer modernist performance. Together, these case ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190679705
SKU
V9780190679705
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99-99
About Penny Farfan
Penny Farfan is Professor of Drama at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Women, Modernism, and Performance, the co-editor of Contemporary Women Playwrights: Into the Twenty-First Century, and a past editor of Theatre Journal. In 2015, she received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's Excellence in Editing Award for sustained career achievement and the Women and ... Read more
Reviews for Performing Queer Modernism
This book luminously reveals how queerness created modernism through a spinning prism of performances onstage and offstage, legitimate and illegitimate, embodied and literary ... Farfans richly erudite, sinewy writing memorably captures the dense interweaving of sexual and aesthetic dissonance that circulated among audiences as well as performers and writers during this transformational era - and beyond.
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