Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History

Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History
ISBN-10
0810135329
ISBN-13
9780810135321
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2017-07-15
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Author
Jaclyn Pryor

Description

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.

Other editions

Similar books