Acts of Gaiety : LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure / Sara Warner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Triangulations : lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472028757
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Contents:
"Contents"; "Preface"; "Acknowledgments"; "Introduction"; "1. "Scummy" Acts: Valerie Solanas's Theater of the Ludicrous"; "2. Guerrilla Acts: Marriage Protests, 1969 and 2009"; "3. Expatriate Acts: Jill Johnston's Joker Citizenship"; "4. Terrorist Acts: The Maladapted Hothead Paisan, a Lesbian Comedy of Terrors"; "5. Unnatural Acts: The Tragic Consequences of Homoliberalism in the Five Lesbian Brothers' Oedipus at Palm Springs "; "Afterword"; "Notes"; "Bibliography"; "Index."
Summary: "The book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s-70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety that lay at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era and uncovering original documents long thought to be lost. Juxtaposing historical figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists (including Hothead Paisan, Bitch & Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers), Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging."--Publisher
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"Contents"; "Preface"; "Acknowledgments"; "Introduction"; "1. "Scummy" Acts: Valerie Solanas's Theater of the Ludicrous"; "2. Guerrilla Acts: Marriage Protests, 1969 and 2009"; "3. Expatriate Acts: Jill Johnston's Joker Citizenship"; "4. Terrorist Acts: The Maladapted Hothead Paisan, a Lesbian Comedy of Terrors"; "5. Unnatural Acts: The Tragic Consequences of Homoliberalism in the Five Lesbian Brothers' Oedipus at Palm Springs "; "Afterword"; "Notes"; "Bibliography"; "Index."

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"The book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s-70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety that lay at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era and uncovering original documents long thought to be lost. Juxtaposing historical figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists (including Hothead Paisan, Bitch & Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers), Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging."--Publisher

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