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Book SynopsisContaining nine performance scripts by black and Latino/a queer playwrights and performance artists—each accompanied by an interview and essay,
Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of sexuality, blackness, and Latinidad.
Trade Review"[T]he Blacktino works as presented in this collection rankle and disturb, taunt and tantalize, ripping back skin and exposing raw nerves like no other." -- Timothy Francis Barry * Brooklyn Rail *
"A groundbreaking project...." -- Claudia Sofía Garriga-López * TSQ *
"It is not only that all these voices matter and deserve to be heard but also (and even more so) that, when these voices are heard together in the space of the same printed text, they mean more—and differently—than they would in the small theatre spaces where they were originally performed." -- Shane Breaux * Theatre Survey *
"In bringing together the performance scripts of primarily Black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists working in the United States, the book offers a survey of some of the most arresting work in this rising field." -- Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez * Chiricú Journal *
“This collection is a call for more collections that empower, (re)member, and advocate for queer people of color. It is an excellent choice for artists, activists, and academics interested in the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and sexuality (and more); cultural performances of power and resistance; and the potentiality of queer of color worldmaking.” -- Robert Gutierrez-Perez * Text and Performance Quarterly *
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Blacktino Queer Performance is an essential read for scholars of performance, queer theory, and critical race studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach provides multiple perspectives through intertextual and intercultural critique.” -- Sarah Stefana Smith * CAA Reviews *
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Blacktino Queer Performance serves as a timely consideration of the work of contemporary artists identifying as interracial and as queer, and as an interdisciplinary, lyrical imagining of the very notion of intersectionality." -- Nevarez Encinias * TDR: The Drama Review *
“Blacktino decolonizes queer performance, emancipating it from the homonormative whiteness of mainstream queer theory. The work of Johnson and Rivera-Servera interjects a critical intervention into the fields of racial and queer performance studies…. Johnson and Rivera-Servera offer an in-depth cultural critique that engages a vast array of artists and scholars, and they challenge their readers to seek out queer performance outside of the pages of their volume.”
-- Kerry L. Goldmann * Ufahamu *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: Ethnoracial Intimacies in Blacktino Queer Performance / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 1
Part I. The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Sharon Bridgforth 21
1. Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth's
The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Matt Richardson 62
2. Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Sandra L. Richards 78
Part II. Machos / Teatro Luna 89
3. Voicing Masculinity / Tamara Roberts 154
4. Interview with Coya Paz / Patricial Ybarra 167
Part III. Strange Fruit: A Performance about Identity Politics / E. Patrick Johnson 179
5. Passing Strange: E. Patrick Johnson's
Strange Fruit / Jennifer DeVere Brody 213
6. Interview with E. Patrick Johnson / Bernadette Marie Calafell 229
Part IV. Ah mén / Javier Cardona, translated by Micu and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 243
7. Homosociality and Its Discontents: Puerto Rican Masculinities in Javier Cardona's
Ah mén / Celiany Rivera-Velázquez and Beliza Torres Narváez 264
8. Interview with Javier Cardona / Jossianna Arroyo, translated by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 275
Part V. Dancin' the Down Low / Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. 285
9. Queering Black Identity and Desire: Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr.'s
Dancin' the Down Low / Lisa B. Thompson 230
10. Interview with Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr. / John Keene 331
Part VI. Cuban Hustle / Cedric Brown 345
11. Love and Money: Performing Black Queer Diasporic Desire in Cuban Hustle / Marlon M. Bailey 372
12. Interview with Cedric Brown / D. Soyini Madison 387
Part VII. Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love / Pamela Booker 395
13. "Public Intimacy": Women-Loving-Women as Dramaturgical Transgressions / Omi Osun Joni L. Jones 439
14. Interview with Pamela Booker / Tavia Nyong'o 454
Part VIII. Berserker / Paul Outlaw 461
15. What's Nat Turner Doing Up in Here with All These Queers? Paul Outlaw's
Beserker; A Black Gay Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing Blackness / Charles I. Nero 486
16. Interview with Paul Outlaw / Vershawn Ashanti Young 498
Part IX. I Just Love Andy Gibb: A Play in One Act / Charles Rice-González 509
17. Learning to Unlove Andy Gibb: Race, Beauty, and the Erotics of Puerto Rican Black Queer Pedagogy / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 542
18. Interview with Charles Rice-González / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 555
Contributors 563
Index 569
