Performance in America
Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
1st Edition
Published on 23. November 2005
376 pages
978-0-8223-8744-2 (ISBN)
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Argues for the centrality of theater and performance in the American national imaginary.
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Duke University Press
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David Román is Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS and a coeditor of O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance.
Content
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Here and Now 1
1. Not About AIDS 49
2. Visa Denied: Chay Yew's Theatre of Immigration and the Performance of Asian American History 78
3. Latino Genealogies: Broadway and Beyond - the Case of John Leguizamo 109
4. Archival Drags; or, the Afterlife of Performance 137
5. Cabaret as Cultural History: Popular Song and Public Performance in America 179
6. Tragedy and the Performing Arts in the Wake of September 11, 2001 226
Afterword: The Time of Your Life 281
Notes 311
Bibliography 333
Index 345
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Here and Now 1
1. Not About AIDS 49
2. Visa Denied: Chay Yew's Theatre of Immigration and the Performance of Asian American History 78
3. Latino Genealogies: Broadway and Beyond - the Case of John Leguizamo 109
4. Archival Drags; or, the Afterlife of Performance 137
5. Cabaret as Cultural History: Popular Song and Public Performance in America 179
6. Tragedy and the Performing Arts in the Wake of September 11, 2001 226
Afterword: The Time of Your Life 281
Notes 311
Bibliography 333
Index 345
