Farfan, Penny

Performing Queer Modernism

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ISBN 13:
9780190679705
author:
Farfan, Penny
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
language:
English
Publication Year:
2017
Pages:
152
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.49 x 1.27 centimetres
Genre:
Music, Genres & Styles, Dance
Condition:
New
Availability:
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£54.21

Description

Penny Farfan's Performing Queer Modernism explores the intersection of queer performance and modernist art in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century stage productions. This interdisciplinary study examines how queer performance played a key role in shaping modern sexual identities and anticipates contemporary queer modernist studies.

Farfan draws on case studies of notable works, including Vaslav Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun and Noël Coward's Private Lives, to clarify the relationship between queer and modernist performance. By analyzing these productions, she sheds new light on the co-productive intersection of queer and modernist ideas in performance history.

This book contributes to an expanded understanding of modernism across various performance genres and highlights the integral role of performance within modernist studies. It also engages with revisionist historiographies that approach modernist performance through feminist and queer critical perspectives, offering a fresh perspective on this pivotal period in art and culture.

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