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Performing Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from
some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and
theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and
individuals that have been traditionally marginalized or excluded
from dominant historical narratives. As a meeting point of several
fields of study, this book is organized around three meta-themes:
race, gender, and genocide. Included are analyses of films and
theatrical productions from the United States, as well as essays on
cinema from Southern and Central America, Europe, and the Middle
East. Topically, the contributing authors write about the depiction
of race, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientation, and genocides.
This volume assesses how the performing arts have aided in the
social construction of the "other" in differing contexts. Its
fundamental premise is that performance is powerful, and its
unifying thesis is that the arts remain a major forum for advancing
a more nuanced and humane vision of social outcasts, not only in
the realm of national imaginations, but in social relations as
well.
Created for general and scholarly audiences alike, this volume
offers ten of the best recent plays by and about gay men, all of
which have been successfully produced and critically acclaimed in
the United States and England. The playwrights, who reflect
multicultural origins ranging from Anglo to African American and
Latino, have crafted powerful a
Created for general and scholarly audiences alike, this volume
offers ten of the best recent plays by and about gay men, all of
which have been successfully produced and critically acclaimed in
the United States and England. The playwrights, who reflect
multicultural origins ranging from Anglo to African American and
Latino, have crafted powerful and insightful depictions of the
roles gay men play in gender politics.Each play is explosive,
politically and socially relevant, and enlightening, whether it be
Martin Sherman's much-praised "A Madhouse in Goa" or the
avante-garde Pomo Afro Homos' "Dark Fruit." The first to offer such
a diversity of voices, this collection also crosses generational
borders. Included are two of the first and most important modern
gay playwrights--Martin Sherman and Peter Gill--as well as exciting
younger dramatists who have emerged in the "gay
nineties."Illustrating the sexual politics and events that have
swirled through mainstream society since the Stonewall rebellion in
the 1960s--AIDS, homophobia, transgendering, discrimination,
violence--these plays offer essential and direct articulation of
the human lives involved. Each of these plays in its own unique way
deeply investigates the pain, sorrow, joy, and beauty of being gay
in a predominantly heterosexual world.
This is a collection of seven contemporary American plays (six of
them by gay playwrights) that depict the lives of gay men in the
years before gay liberation and in our own time. All of these plays
have been successfully produced by major American theaters and all
have received critical acclaim. The first three works in the
collection-Robert O' Hara's Antebellum, Joseph and David Zellnik's
Yank , and Jon Marans's The Temperamentals-demonstrate gay
playwrights' impulse to share the history of oppression and
liberation gay men have faced. The remaining four plays-Guillermo
Reyes's Deporting the Divas, Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet,
Neal Bell's Spatter Pattern and Jose Rivera's Pablo and Andrew at
the Altar of Words-offer depictions of the ways in which gay men
have and have not assimilated in the twenty-first century.
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