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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “joshua chambers letson”
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  • The Sense of Brown

    by José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
    The Sense of Brown is José Esteban Muñoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Muñoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho and Nilo Cruz, artists Nao Bustamante, Isaac Julien, and Tania Bruguera, and singer José Feliciano, among others, arguing for a sense of brownness ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Race So Different

    Performance and Law in Asian America

    by Joshua Chambers-Letson ...
    Series Book 8 - Postmillennial Pop
    Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher EducationTaking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson argues that the law influences racial formation by compelling Asian Americans to embody and perform recognizable identities in both popular aesthetic forms (such as theater, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital

    The World of Extreme Happiness; Snow in Midsummer; The King of Hell’s Palace

    by MS Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    "Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban China."(Chicago Reader)Poetic and devastating, sensuous and politically acute, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Plays explore the forces of global capital as they explode within the lives of everyday ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Unfinished Grief

    Queer Love and Loss

    by Joshua Chambers-Letson ...
    Series Book 65 - Sexual Cultures
    Takes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with queer griefWhat if, instead of overcoming grief, we learned to live with it? Unfinished Grief invites readers to linger within loss and to understand mourning not as an endpoint, but as a mode of relation, continuance, and care.In this lyrical follow-up to his acclaimed After the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    by José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series Book 50 - Sexual Cultures
    A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholarsCruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • After the Party

    A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life

    by Joshua Chambers-Letson ...
    Series Book 4 - Sexual Cultures
    Winner, 2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theatre in Higher EducationWinner, 2018 Errol Hill Award in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchA new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking.After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Cruising Utopia

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity 10th Anniversary Edition

    by José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 15 min

    The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Cruising Utopia

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    by Jose Esteban Munoz ...
    The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hold It Against Me

    Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

    by Jennifer Doyle ...
    In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing performance art, painting, and photography, Doyle provides new perspectives on artists ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Radical Gestures

    by Jayne Wark ...
    Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. In Radical Gestures Jayne Wark situates feminist performance art in Canada and the United States in the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000. She shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works that after a long period of modernist aesthetic detachment ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Everybody's Autonomy

    Connective Reading and Collective Identity

    by Professor Juliana Spahr ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author. Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity.Contemporary avant garde writing has often been overlooked by those who study literature and identity. Such writing has been perceived as unrelated, as disrespectful of subjectivity. But Everybody's ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945

    Edited by Jennifer Ashton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD