Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics; Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art. The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists; each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black; Latina/o; and queer expressive practices. As the volumes framing device; "blacktino" grounds the specificities of black and brown social and political relations while allowing the contributors to maintain the goals of queer-of-color critique. Whether interrogating constructions of Latino masculinity; theorizing the black queer male experience; or examining black lesbian relationships; the contributors present blacktino queer performance as an artistic; critical; political; and collaborative practice. These scripts; interviews; and essays not only accentuate the value of blacktino as a reading device; they radiate the possibilities for thinking through the concepts of blacktino; queer; and performance across several disciplines. Blacktino Queer Performance reveals the inevitable flirtations; frictions; and seductions that mark the contours of any ethnoracial love affair.
#3731364 in eBooks 2016-05-16 2016-05-16File Name: B01FMCONTO
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