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- Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Performance Works
summary
This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Jaclyn I. Pryor introduces the concept of "time slips," moments in which past, present, and future coincide, moments that challenge American narratives of racial and sexual citizenship.
Framing performance as a site of resistance, Pryor analyzes their own work and that of four other queer artists—Ann Carlson, Mary Ellen Strom, Peggy Shaw, and Lisa Kron—between 2001 and 2016. Pryor illuminates how each artist deploys performance as a tool to render history visible, trauma recognizable, and transformation possible by laying bare the histories and ongoing systems of violence woven deep into our society. Pryor also includes a case study that examines the challenges of teaching queer time and queer performance within the academy in what Pryor calls a post-9/11 “homeland” security state.
Masterfully synthesizing a wealth of research and experiences, Time Slips will interest scholars and readers in the fields of theater and performance studies, queer studies, and American studies.
Masterfully synthesizing a wealth of research and experiences, Time Slips will interest scholars and readers in the fields of theater and performance studies, queer studies, and American studies.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 3-40
- Chapter 4. Teaching Time (a periplum)
- pp. 125-146
- Bibliography
- pp. 169-178
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810135321
Related ISBN(s)
9780810135307, 9780810135314
MARC Record
OCLC
991549261
Pages
200
Launched on MUSE
2017-06-28
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017