Overview
- Explores key queer and trans feminist theories as they relate to contemporary performance.
- Offers an intersectional and transnational approach to the subject and situates the discussion within recent political and cultural developments?Brings together the work of a broad range of international scholars, including both senior and emergent voices
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Subversive Performance: Breaking Through Codes of (Un)Intelligibility
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Whose Queer Currency? Ex/Changing CIS White Fragility
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About this book
The guiding question for the Handbook is: How do queer and trans feminist theories enhance our understanding of developments in feminist performance today, and will this discussion give rise to new ways of theorizing contemporary performance? As such, the volume will survey a new generation of performers and theorists, as well as senior scholars, who engage and redefine the limits of performance. The chapters will demonstrate how intersectional, queer and trans feminist theoretical tools support new analyses of performance with a global focus.
The primary audience will be students of theatre/ performance studies as well as queer /gender studies. The volume’s contents suggest close links between the formation of queer feminist identities alongside recent key political developments with transnational resonances. Furthermore, the emergence of new queer and trans feminist epistemologies prompts a reorientation regarding performance and identities in a 21st-century context.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tiina Rosenberg (she/her) is Professor of Performance Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, and has previously been Professor of Gender Studies at Stockholm University and at Lund University, Sweden. Rosenberg has written extensively on performing arts, feminism, and queer theory. Her most recent books include Don’t Be Quiet, Start a Riot. Essays on Feminism and Performance (2016), Mästerregissören: När Ludvig Josephson tog Europa till Sverige (The Master Director: Bringing Europe to Sweden, 2017),and HBTQ Spelar Roll – Mellan Garderob Och Kanon (LGBTQ Plays a Role – Between the Canon and the Closet, 2018).
Anna Renée Winget (they/them) is currently a guest lecturer at Stockholm University, Sweden, and a mental health project manager at RFSL, Sweden’s national organization for LGBTQI rights. They hold a doctorate in drama and theatre from the Universities of California at Irvine (UCI), USA, and at San Diego (UCSD), USA, where they completed their dissertation, Performing Possibilities: Trans-Healing in Activist Performance. They received their MFA in Playwriting from Boston University, USA. Their newest play, Grand Canyon Pussy, presented by Sorority Productions, was performed in Los Angeles in 2018.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance
Editors: Tiina Rosenberg, Sandra D'Urso, Anna Renée Winget
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69555-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69554-5Published: 22 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69555-2Published: 21 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 541
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Performing Arts, Culture and Gender, Contemporary Theatre, Performers and Practitioners, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality