... and the Subversion of Identity . New York: Routledge, 1990 . Butler , Judith . “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory.” Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre . Ed. Sue-Ellen Case. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990 . 270 -82...

...Jayna Brown 276 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES AGENCY AND SELF-­VOLITION IN BLACK FEMINIST PERFORMANCE ART Jayna Brown Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance Uri McMillan New York: New York...

... of performative practices to a politics of identification and inquires into the links between political performativity and the performative construction of identity. More broadly, it interrogates how sexual and gender dissidence translates into identification across national and ethnic divides. Finally...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 131 Identity, Performativity and Queer Immigrant Bodies A Dominican Perspective David A. B. Murray Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-­Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men Carlos Ulises Decena Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 309 pp. These days...

...Jennifer DeVere Brody Duke University Press 2007 Jennifer DeVere Brody is the Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and associate professor of English, performance studies, and African American studies at Northwestern University. Books in Brief We “Other Victorians...

... their yearnings and sense of loss seriously and imagines a world where they would not have to choose between incommensurable ways of being and desiring in the world. Ann Pellegrini is associate professor of performance studies and religious studies at New York University. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-023...

... gold, platinum, and multiplatinum records. The excesses one witnesses in Juan Gabriel’s commercial success are analogous to the stylistic excesses one observes in his vocality and the performance of his musical persona. This article focuses on these excesses and examines them in relation to mainstream...

...Hentyle Yapp At the intersection of social practice art and queer failure discourse, performativity pulses with possibility. This article tracks this strong performative force that undergirds theorizations of queer failure, social success, and performance. The author examines Julie Tolentino’s...

... studies at New York University. DOI 10.1215/10642684-4254549 BODIES ON THE LINE: The Performativity of Protest Sarah Hansen Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly Judith Butler Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 248...

...Allen Durgin For the twenty-fifth anniversary of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies , this lyric essay returns to the first appearance of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s much-anthologized article “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel ” in the journal’s debut issue. Reading...

... the secret normativities of so-called antinormative theories of performativity within Euro-American queer theory. Everyday South Africans foreground practices of cross-context citation in the register of “unsuccessful” performatives. Their experiences underscore Jacques Derrida’s diagnosis...

... University Press, 1998. 448 pp. $59.95 cloth,$18.95 paper Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture,and AIDS David Román Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. 376 pp.$49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper Duke University Press 2001 GLQ 7.2-05 Villarejo 4/20/01 6:02 PM Page 313...

...Carrie Sandahl Duke University Press 2003 QUEERING THE CRIP OR CRIPPING THE QUEER? Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance Carrie Sandahl As the interdisciplinary field of disability studies develops its own theoretical paradigms...

... University Press 2015 Swahili discourse Popobawa transgression Islam Zanzibar DISCREET TALK ABOUT SUPERNATURAL SODOMY, TRANSGRESSIVE GENDER PERFORMANCE, AND MALE SAME-­SEX DESIRE IN ZANZIBAR TOWN Katrina Daly Thompson Since at least the mid-­1960s, Zanzibari Muslims...

...Roshanak Kheshti Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran . Najmabadi Afsaneh . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 . 432 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 676 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES PERFORMING...

...Christopher Reed Duke University Press 2006 Design for (Queer) Living Sexual Identity, Performance, and Decor in British Vogue, 1922 – 1926 Christopher Reed There is something queer about archives, places of paradigmatic institutional- ity (careful filing systems, rows of desks...

...Jennifer Flores Sternad Duke University Press 2006 The GLQ Archive Cyclona and Early Chicano Performance Art An Interview with Robert Legorreta Jennifer Flores Sternad Robert Legorreta, also known as Cyclona, dates his earliest street performances to 1966. Only fourteen years...

...David J. Getsy The recent exercise works of the performance and social media artist Amber Hawk Swanson explore extreme fitness as an allegory for self-realization. Her exaggerated engagement with such activities as CrossFit compels Hawk Swanson to treat herself as her own object to be both...

...Leon J. Hilton In 2011 the French artists Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, who since 1991 have worked together as the art collaborative Art Orienté Objet, created a performance titled Que le cheval vive en moi ( May the Horse Live in Me ). In the piece, which took several months to complete...

... Diversity in American Indian Culture . Boston: Beacon, 1986 . Wittig , Monique . “The Mark of Gender.” The Straight Mind and Other Essays . Boston: Beacon, 1992 . 76 -89. MY WORDS TO VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN ABOVE THE VILLAGE OF CHAMOUNIX PERFORMING...