Acts of intervention : performance, gay culture, and AIDS / David Román.

  • Román, David, 1959-
Date:
[1998]
  • Books

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Description

Acts of Intervention traces the ways in which performance and theatre have participated in and informed the larger cultural politics of race, sexuality, citizenship and AIDS in the United States in the last fifteen years.

Publication/Creation

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1998]

Physical description

xxxiii, 344 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Contents

1. Acts of Intervention -- 2. One and Counting: Early AIDS Plays -- 3. "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To!" -- AIDS Performance and the Circulation of Camp in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s -- 4. Solo Performance and the Body on Stage -- 5. Pomo Afro Homos' Fierce Love: Intervening in the Cultural Politics of Race, Sexuality, and AIDS -- 6. Teatro Viva! -- Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles -- 7. November 1, 1992: AIDS/Angels in America -- 8. Negative Energies: HIV-Negatives and the Problem of Seroconversion -- Afterword: Rent's Due.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-333) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CUT/ROM
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0253333709
  • 9780253333704
  • 0253211689
  • 9780253211682