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Performing Queer Modernism (Hardcover)
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Performing Queer Modernism (Hardcover)
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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 studies clarify aspects
of both the queer and the modernist, and how their co-productive
intersection was articulated in and through performance on the
late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century stage. Performing
Queer Modernism thus contributes to an expanded understanding of
modernism across a range of performance genres, the central role of
performance within modernism more generally, and the integral
relation between performance history and the history of sexuality.
It also contributes to the ongoing transformation of the field of
modernist studies, in which drama and performance remain
under-represented, and to revisionist historiographies that
approach modernist performance through feminist and queer critical
perspectives and interdisciplinary frameworks and that consider how
formally innovative as well as more conventional works collectively
engaged with modernity, at once reflecting and contributing to
historical change in the domains of gender and sexuality.
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