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Surreal Black Beauty: Risk, Difficulty, and Alterity in Contemporary Black Feminist Performance

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Black women performers have made, and continue to make, contributions to the U.S.-avant-garde performance canon and Black performance traditions that go largely unaccounted for in academic studies. Research has shown that across temporalities, Black women performers have mobilized experimental avant-garde aesthetics to disrupt and refuse essentialized notions of Blackness in...

Keyword:

Avant-garde performance, Performance studies, and Black feminism

Subject:

African American studies, Gender studies, and Performing arts

Creator:

Webb, Chaunesti Nichelle

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_903678 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16104
Performing Monstrosity: Queer and Transgender Tactics of Resistance in Twenty-first Century U.S.

Description:

This dissertation is a theoretically informed project that blends ethnographic and archival research methods to examine how queer and transgender performance artists deploy monstrosity as a tactic to question the terms by which LGBTQ people are granted or denied humanity in twenty-first century United States. While there is an abundance...

Keyword:

feminism, queer, transgender, monsters, body-based art, and theater

Subject:

LGBTQ studies, Gender studies, and Performing arts

Creator:

Langes, Rae A.

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14523 and etdadmin_upload_639772

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