
The Sense of Brown
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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.
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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
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