Blue Roses
Tennessee Williams, Memory, and the Queer Archive
Will be published approx. on 23. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-1-68597-075-8 (ISBN)
Description
Blue Roses documents a queer response to one of the most popular American playwrights of the twentieth century: Tennessee Williams. Referencing Williams's symbolic nickname for Laura in The Glass Menagerie, Daniel Ciba arranges archival memories that provoke, resist, and reimagine Williams's contribution to LGBTQ+ culture. Ciba theorizes new archival methodologies that blend memory studies, queer theory, and theatre historiography. Each blue rose is an untold story of queer history that corresponds to a different period of Williams's life, from World War II to the Lavender Scare and the Stonewall uprising.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 to 99 years
Illustrations
7 b&w photos, 4 b&w images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68597-075-8 (9781685970758)
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Person
Daniel Ciba is the costume shop manager for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. He has served as associate editor of the Studies in Theatre History and Culture series for the University of Iowa Press. Ciba lives in Morristown, New Jersey.