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Books by Tavia Nyong'o






Afro-Fabulations
The Queer Drama of Black Life (Sexual Cultures)
by Tavia Nyong'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 ..."






Perverse Modernities
a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.: The Sense of Brown
by Jose Esteban Munoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2020 by Duke Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1103-3, ISBN: 1-4780-1103-3

"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 ..."






Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition(2nd Edition)
The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Sexual Cultures)
by Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o, Ann Pellegrini, José Esteban Muñoz, Jos Esteban Muoz, Mu Z.
Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2019 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-7456-9, ISBN: 1-4798-7456-6

"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 ..."






The Amalgamation Waltz(1st Edition)
Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
by Tavia Nyong'o, Tavia Nyong’O, Tavia Nyong’O, Nyong\'O, Roderick A. Ferguson, Tavia Nyongã¢Â€Â™O
Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5613-4, ISBN: 0-8166-5613-4

"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, Tavia Nyong'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 ..."






The Amalgamation Waltz(1st Edition)
Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
by Tavia Nyong'o, Tavia Nyong’O, Roderick A. Ferguson, Tavia Nyong’O
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2009 by Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5612-7, ISBN: 0-8166-5612-6

"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 ..."






The Sense of Brown
(Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
by Jose Esteban Munoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2020 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0997-9, ISBN: 1-4780-0997-7

"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 ..."






Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition(2nd Edition)
The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Sexual Cultures)
by Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o, Ann Pellegrini, José Esteban Muñoz, Mu Z.
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2019 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1378-0, ISBN: 1-4798-1378-8

"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 ..."






The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness
(Oxford Handbooks)
by Fred Everett Maus, Sheila Whiteley, Tavia Nyong'o, Zoe Sherinian
Hardcover, 744 Pages, Published 2022 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-979352-5, ISBN: 0-19-979352-2

"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 ..."






Punk and Its Afterlives
(Social Text)
by Jayna Brown, Tavia Nyong'o, Patrick Deer
Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 2013 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6810-6, ISBN: 0-8223-6810-2

"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 Tavia Nyong'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 Tavia Nyong'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, ..."






Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34
by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin, Megan E. Geigner, Jerry Dickey Dr, Sharon Marie Carnicke, Jonathan Chambers, Miriam Chirico, Meredith A. Conti, Julia Fawcett, Iris Fischer, Brett D. Johnson, Emeline Jouve, Valerie Joyce, Keith Byron Kirk, Jenna L. Kubly, Martha S. Lomonaco, Scott Magelssen, Theresa J. May, Lance Mekeel, Tavia Nyong'o, Alexis Riley, Kristen Rogers, Cindy Rosenthal, Judith Sebesta, Dr Teresa Stankiewicz, Heidi L. Nees Dr, Dr Harvey Young, Beliza Torres Narváez, Kevin J. Wetmore, University Alabama Press, Beliza Torres Narvez
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2016 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-7109-8, ISBN: 0-8173-7109-5

"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
Black Performance in Contemporary Art
by Naomi Beckwith, Yona Backer, Bill Arning, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Franklin Sirmans, Clifford Owens, Tavia Nyong'o
Hardcover, 165 Pages, Published 2013 by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
ISBN-13: 978-1-933619-38-5, ISBN: 1-933619-38-4

""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, ..."






World Stage
Africa, Lagos - Dakar
by Krista A. Thompson, Robert Hobbs, Thelma Golden, Kehinde Wiley, Malik Gaines, Christine Y. Kim, Tavia Nyong'o, Et Al Wiley
Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2008 by The Studio Museum In Harlem
ISBN-13: 978-0-942949-35-3, ISBN: 0-942949-35-8

"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 ..."






Social Text 84-85
What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?
by David L. Eng, José Esteban Muñoz, Judith Halberstam, Jack Halberstam, Professor Amy Villarejo, Contributor-Karen Tongson, Contributor-Gayatri Gopinath, Contributor-Elizabeth Freeman, Contributor-Chandan Reddy, Janet R. Jakobsen, Contributor-Judith Halberstam, Roderick A. Ferguson, Jasbir K. Puar, Joon Oluchilee, Tavia Nyong'o, Nayan Shah, Hiram Perez, Teemu Ruskola, Michael Cobb, Contributor-Jasbir Puar, Contributor-Janet Jakobsen, Contributor-Roderick Ferguson, Contributor-Joon Lee
Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 2005 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6621-8, ISBN: 0-8223-6621-5

"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 2008(1st Edition)
Volume 28
by Theatre History Studies, Rhona Justice-Malloy, Contributor-William Demastes, Contributor-Elin Diamond, Contributor-Antonis Glytzouris, Contributor-Margaret Knapp, Contributor-Francesca Marini, Contributor-Tavia Nyong'o, Contributor-Stephen Harrick, Contributor-Lou Bellamy, Contributor-Anne Fletcher, Contributor-Anne Fliotsos, Scott R. Irelan, Jackson R. Bryer, Associate Professor Anne Fletcher, Noreen Barnes-Mclain, Judith E. Barlow, Anne L. Fliotsos, Aaron D. Anderson, Rosemarie K. Bank, David A. Crespy, Landis K. Magnuson, John C. Hall Md, Phil Groeschel, Mark Cosdon, Weldon B. Durham, Barbara Ozieblo, Tyler Smith, Don B. Wilmeth, Kenneth Schlesinger, Rebecca Kastleman, Heather S. Nathans, Margaret Thornton
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5502-9, ISBN: 0-8173-5502-2

""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 ..."






Vols teoria queer ?
by Cathy J. Cohen, Tavia Nyong'o
Paperback, Published 2010 by El Tangram
ISBN-13: 978-84-938465-2-7, ISBN: 84-938465-2-X






Kehinde Wiley(1st Edition)
A New Republic
by Eugenie Tsai, Connie H. Choi, Elizabeth Armstrong, Richard Aste, Lee Ambrozy, Naomi Beckwith, Beth Citron, Sarah Cochran, Jeffrey Deitch, Quincy Flowers, Rujeko Hockley, Venus Lau, Catharina Manchanda, Kobena Mercer, Tumelo Mosaka, Steven Nelson, Annie Paul, Megha Ralapati, Franklin Sirmans, Claire Tancons, Tavia Nyong'o, Kirsten Pai Buick, Kevin D. Dumouchelle, Lewis R. Gordon, David J. Getsy, Dr Deborah Willis, Rebecca Walker, Christine Y. Kim, Thomas J. Lax, Valerie J. Mercer, John B. Ravenal, Joanna Montoya Robotham, Murtaza Vali, Nicola Vassell, Professor Molly Nesbit, Molly Nesbit, Toure, Insoo Cho
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Prestel
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5430-9, ISBN: 3-7913-5430-2

"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 ..."

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