No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University, the coeditor of Blacktino Queer Performance and Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, all also published by Duke University Press.
The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and the Heteroperpetually Ever After
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Published:September 2016
La Marr Jurelle Bruce, 2016. "The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and the Heteroperpetually Ever After", No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies, E. Patrick Johnson
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La Marr Jarelle Bruce focuses on three films—To Wong Foo, Romeo + Juliet, and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil—that feature black drag queens who serve a particular use value within the rhetorical mise-en-scène of each film’s racial, sexual, and gender politics. Bruce’s analyses ground his theorization of the insidious regime of “heteroperpetuity,” which he defines as encompassing a range of political imperatives, social arrangements, and cultural practices and productions mobilized to protect and perpetuate heteronormative dominion. Highlighting its hegemony over black drag queen characters whose spectacular queerness and blackness would seem categorically to...
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