Acts of Gaiety LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure

Name: Acts of Gaiety LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure
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ISBN: 9780472035670

ISBN-10: 0472035673

ISBN-13: 9780472035670

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sara Warner

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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 theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of "legitimate theater." 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.The book mines the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 6/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



"Scummy" Acts: Valerie Solanas's Theater of the Ludicrous



Guerrilla Acts: Marriage Protests, 1969 and 2009



Expatriate Acts: Jill Johnston's Joker Citizenship



Terrorist Acts: The Maladapted Hothead Paisan, a Lesbian Comedy of Terrors



Unnatural Acts: The Tragic Consequences of Homoliberalism in the Five Lesbian Brothers' Oedipus at Palm Springs


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index