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Item Details
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ACTS OF INTERVENTION
PERFORMANCE, GAY CULTURE, AND AIDS |
| By: |
David Roman |
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Hardback |
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£33.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253333709 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253333704 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 1998 |
| Series: |
Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Description: |
Examines the ways that gay men have used theatre and performance to intervene in the AIDS crisis. This book traces the ways in which performance and theatre have participated in and informed the larger cultural politics of race, sexuality, citizenship, and AIDS in the United States. |
| Synopsis: |
"Acts of Intervention" examines the ways that gay men have used theatre and performance to intervene in the AIDS crisis. It discusses dramatic texts and public performances - from cabarets and candlelight vigils to full-scale Broadway productions such as "Angels in America" and "Rent" that have shaped, and been shaped by, the history of AIDS in national, regional, and local contexts. Roman examines mainstream as well as alternative and activist forms of theatre, including solo performance, community-based projects, mixed-media events, activist demonstrations, and AIDS educational theatre initiatives. "Acts of Intervention" traces the ways in which performance and theatre have participated in and informed the larger cultural politics of race, sexuality, citizenship, and AIDS in the United States during the last fifteen years. The book discusses not only how the theatre has provided a forum for gay male response to the epidemic but also the degree to which those responses have in turn shaped the ideological formulation of AIDS.Roman offers a new method for mapping the relation between AIDS and representation by combining interpretative strategies from performance theory, gay and lesbian studies, critical race discourse, and cultural studies. This book is dedicated to writing the history of theatrical interventions in the AIDS epidemic, including performances whose official history has been largely neglected or forgotten. Because many early performances about AIDS left little or no documentation, the task of constructing an AIDS theatre historiography confronts immediate problems and limitations. "Acts of Intervention" argues that the history of AIDS performance is located at the juncture of memory and disappearance, of mourning and survival, of representation and its impossibility in the context of epidemic loss. |
| Illustrations: |
40 b&w photos |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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