The Sense of Brown
1st Edition
Published on 24. August 2020
224 pages
978-1-4780-1256-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Sense of Brown, which he was completing at the time of his death, is José Esteban Muñoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies.
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The Sense of Brown
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The Sense of Brown
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Persons
José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013) was Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and author of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity and Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics.
Joshua Chambers-Letson is Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
Tavia Nyong'o is Professor of American Studies, African American Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University.
Joshua Chambers-Letson is Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
Tavia Nyong'o is Professor of American Studies, African American Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Editors' Introduction. The Aesthetic Resonance of Brown / Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o ix
1. The Browns Commons 1
2. Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs) 8
3. The Onus of Seeing Cuba: Nilo Cruz's Cubanía 24
4. Meandering South: Isaac Julien and The Long Road to Mazatlán 29
5. "Chico, What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem?": The Transmission of Brownness 36
6. The Vulnerability Artist: Nao Bustamante and the Sad Beauty of Reparation 47
7. Queer Theater, Queer Theory: Luis Alfaro's Cuerpo Polizado 59
8. Performing the Bestiary: Carmelita Tropicana's With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit?/ Con Que Culo se Sienta la Cucaracha? 78
9. Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt 86
10. Wise Latinas 100
11. Brown Worldings: José Rodríguez-Soltero, Tania Bruguera, and María Irene Fornés 118
12. The Sense of Wildness: The Brown Commons after Paris Burned 128
13. Vitalism's Afterburn: The Sense of Ana Mendieta 141
Notes 151
Bibliography 167
Index 175
Editors' Introduction. The Aesthetic Resonance of Brown / Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o ix
1. The Browns Commons 1
2. Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs) 8
3. The Onus of Seeing Cuba: Nilo Cruz's Cubanía 24
4. Meandering South: Isaac Julien and The Long Road to Mazatlán 29
5. "Chico, What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem?": The Transmission of Brownness 36
6. The Vulnerability Artist: Nao Bustamante and the Sad Beauty of Reparation 47
7. Queer Theater, Queer Theory: Luis Alfaro's Cuerpo Polizado 59
8. Performing the Bestiary: Carmelita Tropicana's With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit?/ Con Que Culo se Sienta la Cucaracha? 78
9. Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt 86
10. Wise Latinas 100
11. Brown Worldings: José Rodríguez-Soltero, Tania Bruguera, and María Irene Fornés 118
12. The Sense of Wildness: The Brown Commons after Paris Burned 128
13. Vitalism's Afterburn: The Sense of Ana Mendieta 141
Notes 151
Bibliography 167
Index 175
