Murder Most Queer The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater

• Tác giả: Jordan Schildcrout
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0472003785
• ISBN-13: 978-0472052325
• ISBN-13: 978-0472072323
• ISBN-13: 978-0472904112
• Thông tin xuất bản: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 374888
• Chủ đề: 1. American Studies; 2. Sexuality Studies; 3. Theater and Performance; 4. Gender studies, gender groups

Tóm tắt

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.