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1 online resource (x, 236 pages) |
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Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance |
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Triangulations.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index. |
| Summary |
"The "villainous homosexual" has long stalked America's cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society's understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when employed by LGBT theater artists themselves to explore darker fears and desires. Murder Most Queer examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in American theater over a century, showing how these representations wrestle with and ultimately subvert notions of gay villainy." |
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"Murder Most Queer works to expose the forces that create the homophobic paradigm that imagines sexual and gender nonconformity as dangerous and destructive and to show how theater artists--and for the most part LGBT theater artists--have rewritten and radically altered the significance of the homicidal homosexual. Jordan Schildcrout argues that these figures, far from being simple reiterations of a homophobic archetype, are complex and challenging characters who enact trenchant fantasies of empowerment, replacing the shame and stigma of the abject with the defiance and freedom of the outlaw, giving voice to rage and resistance. These bold characters also probe the darker anxieties and fears that can affect queer lives and relationships. Instead of sentencing them to the prison of negative representations, this book analyzes the meanings in their acts of murder, confronting the real fears and desires condensed in those dramatic acts"--Publisher's description. |
| Contents |
Introduction: beyond queer villainy -- "I killed him because I loved him?" -- Queer justice -- The closet is a deathtrap -- Rage and revelry -- Arias of love and death -- Queer evil -- Serial killers -- Appendix : Plays with homicidal homosexuals. |
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Print version record. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Homosexuality in the theater -- United States.
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Gay people in literature.
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Gay theater -- United States -- History.
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Gay people in the performing arts -- United States.
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Homicide in literature.
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Homophobia in literature.
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Personnes homosexuelles dans les arts du spectacle -- États-Unis.
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Homosexualité au théâtre -- États-Unis.
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Théâtre américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Personnes homosexuelles dans la littérature.
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Homosexualité dans la littérature.
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Homicide dans la littérature.
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Théâtre américain -- 21e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Théâtre homosexuel -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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DRAMA -- American.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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American drama
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Gays in literature
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Gays in the performing arts
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Homicide in literature
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Homosexuality in literature
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Homosexuality in the theater
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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LGBTQ+ characters.
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Queer characters.
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LGBTQ+ drama.
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Queer drama.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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LGBTQ+ literary criticism.
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Queer literary criticism.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murder most queer. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014] 9780472072323 (DLC) 2014013015 |
| ISBN |
9780472120529 (e-book) |
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0472120522 |
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0472904116 |
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9780472904112 |
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9780472052325 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780472072323 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0472072323 |
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0472052322 |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.6949764 |
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AU@ 000056939463 |
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DEBBG BV044059799 |
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GBVCP 1003793487 |
