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.

Auteur
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 Theatre Program's Achievement Award for Scholarship.

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Focusing on well-known plays and performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Performing Queer Modernism demonstrates that queer performance was integral to modernism, that queer modernist performance played a key role in the historical emergence of modern sexual identities, and that it anticipated the insights of contemporary queer modernist studies.

Contenu

• List of Illustrations

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction: Performing Queer Modernism

• 1. "This feverish, jealous attachment of Paula's for Ellean": Homosocial Desire and the Production of Queer Modernism
• 2. "Fairy of Light": Performative Ghosting and the Queer Uncanny
• 3. "Without the assistance of any girls": Queer Sex and the Shock of the New
• 4. "I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives": Popular Plato, Queer Heterosexuality, Comic Form
• 5. "What are you trying to say?" - "I'm saying it": Queer Performativity in and across Time

• Epilogue: "what is termed Sin is an essential element of progress"

• Notes

• Works Cited

• Index