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Murder most queer :the homicidal homosexual in the American theater
- 作者: Schildcrout, Jordan,
- 出版:
- 稽核項: x, 236 pages ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
- 標題: Gays in the performing arts United States. , Homosexuality in the theater United States. , Homicide in literature. , Homosexuality in the theater , History and criticism , American drama , Gays in the performing arts , American drama 20th century -- History and criticism , Gays in literature. , Homosexuality in literature.
- ISBN: 0472052322 , 9780472052325
- ISBN: 9780472120529 (e-book)
- 附註: 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界. Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index. Introduction: beyond queer villainy -- "I killed him because I loved him?" -- Queer justice -- The closet is a deathtrap -- Rage and revelry -- Arias of love and death -- Queer evil -- Serial killers -- Afterword.
- 系統號: 005263184
- 資料類型: 圖書
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The “villainous homosexual” has long stalked America’s cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society’s understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when employed by LGBT theater artists themselves to explore darker fears and desires. Murder Most Queer examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in American theater over a century, showing how these representations wrestle with and ultimately subvert notions of gay villainy. Murder Most Queer works to expose the forces that create the homophobic paradigm that imagines sexual and gender nonconformity as dangerous and destructive and to show how theater artists—and for the most part LGBT theater artists—have rewritten and radically altered the significance of the homicidal homosexual. Jordan Schildcrout argues that these figures, far from being simple reiterations of a homophobic archetype, are complex and challenging characters who enact trenchant fantasies of empowerment, replacing the shame and stigma of the abject with the defiance and freedom of the outlaw, giving voice to rage and resistance. These bold characters also probe the darker anxieties and fears that can affect queer lives and relationships. Instead of sentencing them to the prison of negative representations, this book analyzes the meanings in their acts of murder, confronting the real fears and desires condensed in those dramatic acts.
來源: Google Book
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