Milestones in Queer US Theatre (Milestones)

Sloan, Dennis (EDT)

Routledge（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032347691
• DDC分類 792.086640973

Full Description

This introduction to queer theatre and performance in the United States explores the pioneering artists that have shaped this ever-changing field across the past two centuries, through ten key moments and movements.

Designed for weekly use in queer and LGBTQ+ theatre courses, the ten chosen milestones move chronologically from nineteenth century shifts in the understanding of homosexuality through the queer postmodernist avant-garde to the rise of intersectionality and recognition of trans identities. This clear, dynamic framework uses 'queer' as a flexible and intersectional term, addressing sexualities and sexual identities, the people and groups who claim them, and the practices that challenge heteronormative structures.

Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

Contents

Introduction

1. The Invention of the Homosexual

2. Black Queerness in the Harlem Renaissance

3. Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movements

4. The Queer Avant-Garde

5. Lesbian and Feminist Performance in the 1980s and 1990s

6. The Broadway Musical

7. HIV/AIDS Activism

8. The Rise of Intersectionality and Queer of Color Critique

9. Trans Inclusion, Gender Expansion, & the New Queer Theatre

10. The Twenty-First Century

Glossary

Timeline