...Laura Edmondson In the burgeoning field of queer African studies, theatricality receives short shrift. Instead, anthropological studies of LGBTQ identities and practices in Africa emphasize theoretical frameworks of sexual discretion, elusiveness, and ambiguity. This essay explores...

... , Michael . Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot . Berkeley: U of California P, 1980 . Goffman , Erving . Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963 . James , Henry . The Art of the Novel . Forewd...

..., to be exemplary, that is, the example of performativity), and another which has to do with the political needs of a growing queer movement in which the publicization of theatrical agency has become quite central The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice...

... dramatization of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf’s life in I Am My Own Wife. It does not happen every day that a fellow countrywoman makes it into the North American theatrical limelight. I had researched and written about von Mahlsdorf several years before. As such, I had been following...

... committed. This form of confession is likened to martyrdom, Jordan explains, to the refusal of self inscribed on the esh. Jordan explores Foucault’s interest in the theatricalization of this form of Christian confession. He nds here, in Foucault’s writing, a trans- position that occurs...

...: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Panel 3: “Getting Our Films Out into the World!” Drawing together leaders in the distribution of media by queer people of color —  from theatrical and DVD release to online and self-distribution — this panel spurred the greatest back...

... to light the cruelty and excessiveness of such stripping practices, unearthing their performative nature as a theatrical display of power that simultaneously creates the very “suspect” or “terrorist” it presents as the precondition that necessitates this act of aggression. Ironic and indeed “chic...

.... That is, drag is subversive only when the consciousness of the performance community is itself radical. In Chinese societies, however, it is far more commonly assumed that any “queer” community consciousness among Chinese actors is an effect, rather than a cause, of theatrical practice. (Chen Kaige’s...

... there, it walked and talked, and ate and drank, and listened and danced to music, and otherwise reveled and roamed, and bought and sold, and came and went there, all on its own splendid terms” (441). James carefully reads the hotel’s theatricality in dialectical terms...

...- pose and, in the process, for building alternative communities.14 In particular, they explore the material and ideological reasons that queer artists are attracted to solo performance. The first is obvious: solo work is cheap and quick to pro- duce. Traditional theatrical production is too expensive...

... of “discovering.” Within fi ve or six years those distributors had largely left the fi eld, because there wasn’t enough money in theatrical distribu- tion of queer-themed fi lms. They were overtaken by much smaller, often queer- run video production companies and distributors. As a result, more...

... and the centrality of embodied action to their negotiation. Performing Combat Franko and Cassils belong to a broader tradition of theatrical performance and performance art that has harnessed fighting imagery and tactics within its prac- tices, drawing on boxing s inherently performative behavioral codes and visual...

..., or dominant politics, or theatrical conventions. They used performance at its outer limits to test the possibilities of reimagining women’s desire and to explore how to tell that story to women who elsewhere were being dissuaded from acknowledging the range of their sexual...

..., or dominant politics, or theatrical conventions. They used performance at its outer limits to test the possibilities of reimagining women’s desire and to explore how to tell that story to women who elsewhere were being dissuaded from acknowledging the range of their sexual...

...) in which bodies and plea- sures found each other without regard to gender, feminist, or dominant politics, or theatrical conventions. They used performance at its outer limits to test the possibilities of reimagining women’s desire and to explore how to tell that story...

..., or dominant politics, or theatrical conventions. They used performance at its outer limits to test the possibilities of reimagining women’s desire and to explore how to tell that story to women who elsewhere were being dissuaded from acknowledging the range of their sexual...

... with. As a performative fi gure, the glove is the parenthetical enclosure around Lynch’s desire. It is not precisely “Bill” that is internalized, but Lynch’s desire for him. Furthermore, the yellow kitchen gloves perform an overtly theatrical drag on the Washington police. The double action of shame in this poem...

... the graphic unsimulated sex found in porno- graphic shorts or loops, albeit staged by Poole in a highly expressive manner, using a syncretic mix of moody theatrical lighting, multiprojector slide shows and filmed scenes projected behind the performers, and movement that is alternately dance- like...

... classic eighteenth-century comedy.” Actually this production is grounded in a lot of quite heavy research into the original inechanics of Marivaux’s company, the kind of theatrical conventions that were in place. Hut nobody knew that because we wanted to say, “Actually, this is a very great...

...-­media arenas, with street demonstrations as the exception, Black Laundry defined itself from the outset as a direct-­action group. Its actions always consisted of direct interventions in the public sphere, usually involving bodily presence, and the style of these actions was both theatrical...