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Shelf life: performance and subtext.

Publication: Lambda Book Report
Publication Date: 01-OCT-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Shelf life: performance and subtext.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History

Edited by Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke

University of Michigan Press

ISBN 0-472-06749-4

PB $24.95, 416 pp.

A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater

By David Savran

University of Michigan Press

ISBN 0-472-06836-9

PB $22.95, 246 pp.

The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater

Edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla

New York University Press

ISBN 081479811X

PB $19.00, 280 pp.

A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical

By Stacy Wolf

University of Michigan Press

ISBN 0-472-06772-9

PB $20.95, 312 pp.

In reviewing this selection of scholarly queer theater criticism published over the last two years, it becomes apparent how useful the academic definition of "queer" as a verb has become. To "queer" a text is to view it as an outsider views things (with a sensitivity to "gender transgression," homosexual subtext or critique of heterosexual norms). Queers throughout history have always felt pressure to perform as something they weren't in order to survive and thrive. In theater, queer people (be they writers, designers, performers or spectators) bring extra layers of performance and subtext to the theatrical experience. This complexity of meaning is thus...

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