Afro-Fabulations The Queer Drama of Black Life (Sexual Cultures) by TaviaNyong'o Paperback, 275 Pages, Published 2018 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-8844-3, ISBN: 1-4798-8844-3
"Winner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre ResearchArgues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong’o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness. Moving fluidly between ..."
"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 that is not fixed within the racial ..."
"A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising 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 argued that the here and now were not ..."
"At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, The Amalgamation Waltz investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scrutinizing widely diverse texts—archival, musical, visual, and theatrical—Tavia Nyong’o traces the genealogy of racial hybridity, analyzing how key events in the nineteenth century spawned a debate about interracialism that live ..."
Wildness (South Atlantic Quarterly, July 20118) by Jack Halberstam, TaviaNyong'o Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 2018 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0057-0, ISBN: 1-4780-0057-0
"The concept of wildness within queer studies has generated new vocabularies for historicizing and theorizing modes of embodiment and categories of experience that lie beyond the conventional, institutionally produced, and modern classifications used to describe and explain gender and sexual variance. Wildness can refer to profusions of plant life, to animal worlds, to crazed and unscripted human behaviors, to the unknown and the unchart ..."
"At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, The Amalgamation Waltz investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scrutinizing widely diverse texts—archival, musical, visual, and theatrical—Tavia Nyong’o traces the genealogy of racial hybridity, analyzing how key events in the nineteenth century spawned a debate about interracialism that live ..."
"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 that is not fixed within the racial ..."
"A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising 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 argued that the here and now were not ..."
"Hirsch, Sandy, and Joan Boonin. “Nonverbal Communication: Assessment and Training.” In Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender/Transsexual Client: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide, edited by Richard Kenneth Adler, Sandy Hirsch ..."
"This issue follows the punk movement’s lingering aftereffects, investigating its unruly profligacy of meanings within music and popular culture and outside and beyond genre. The contributors track punk’s affect and aesthetics across media and geography from the 1970s to the present, seeking to disrupt conventional linear narratives of punk’s development. This collection participates in a growing body of literature focusing on the storie ..."
Sexual Cultures Ser. Afro-Fabulations : The Queer Drama of Black Life by TaviaNyong'o Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2019 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-5627-5, ISBN: 1-4798-5627-4
"5 Robyn Wiegman and Elizabeth A. Wilson, “Antinormativity's Queer Conventions
,” Differences 26, no. 1 (2015): 12. ... of this chapter and book is that such
differences between scholarship and journalism within our intellectual culture
has been subject to ... Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons:
Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Wivenhoe, UK: Minor Compositions, 2013), 55.
... 12 Lisa Duggan, “Queer Complacency without Em ..."
Afro-Fabulations The Queer Drama of Black Life by TaviaNyong'o 280 Pages, Published 2018 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-2417-5, ISBN: 1-4798-2417-8
"This concept has yet to be really taken up in the theory of practice, other than in
the illuminating account of “closing time” in Shane Vogel's The Scene of Harlem
Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ..."
"Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography. The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes's discussion of the Abydos Passion Play. Sikes challenges the long-held interpretation of that ritualized annual reenactment of the death, dismemberme ..."
""Radical Presence" chronicles the emergence of black performance practices in contemporary art. Where hegemony has tended to define black performance art as an extension of theater, this publication provides a critical framework for discussing the history of black performance within the visual arts over the last 50 years. Over five decades of performance art practices by such artists as Benjamin Patterson, David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, ..."
"Beautifully illustrated. Chrstin Y. Kim and Malik Gaines in conversation with Kehinde Wiley. Essays by Krista A. Thompson, Tavia Nyong'o, and Robert Hobbs. 64p. Catalog for an exhibition of the same name at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, July 17-October 26, 2008. Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is a Nigerian-American portrait painter, who is known for his highly his vibrant, large-scale, naturalistic paintings of African-Americans. He p ..."
"This special double issue of "Social Text" reassesses the political utility of the term "queer." The mainstreaming of gay and lesbian identity as a mass-mediated consumer lifestyle and an embattled legal category demands a renewal of queer studies that also considers the global crises of the late twentieth century. These crises, which are shaping national manifestations of sexual, racial, and gendered hierarchies, include the ascendance ..."
""Theatre History Studies" is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons ..."
"Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work--which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Celebrated for his classically styled paintings that depict African American men in heroic poses, Kehinde Wiley is among the expanding ranks of prominent black artists--such as Sanford Biggers, Yinka Sh ..."