E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
“Public Intimacy”: Women-Loving-Women as Dramaturgical Transgressions
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Published:June 2016
In this chapter, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones examines Pamela Booker’s Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love. She considers the ways in which Booker uses the trope of love and experiments with dramatic form to resist oppressive forms. Though Jones ultimately argues that queerness rather than race is the central theme of the play, she contends that the play “sits squarely in a Black theater tradition.”
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