Senegalese Stagecraft explores the theatrical stage in Senegal as a site of poetic expression, political activism, and community engagement. This book addresses a gap in scholarship about performance, theater, and popular culture in Senegal and West Africa.
Pink Revolutions describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on the one hand, and the nationalist Hindu fundamentalism that has emerged since the 1990s, on the other.
Tsvetaeva’s Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word explores the rich theme of the myth of Orpheus as master narrative for poetic inspiration and creative survival in the life and work of Marina Tsvetaeva.
Writer and musician Kevin Simmonds explores Leontyne Price as an icon, a diva, a woman, and a patriot—and himself as a fan, a budding singer, and a gay man—through passages that move polyphonically through Black identity, Black sound, Black sensibility, and Black history.
Edited by Stuart J. Hecht, Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud and Megan E. Geigner
Contributions by Rosemarie K. Bank, Aymar Jean Christian, Shannon Epplett, Cat Gleason, Aaron Krall, LaRonika Marie Thomas, Laley Lippard, Laura A. Lodewyck, Meida McNeal, Travis Stern and Irina Zadov
This book brings together leading historians on the history of theater and performance in Chicago. The essays theorize a regional theater aesthetic that is inherently makeshift and marginal, reflecting the city’s segregation and exposing the transgressive possibilities of performance.
Edited by Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
Contributions by Rosemarie K. Bank, Aymar Jean Christian, Shannon Epplett, Cat Gleason, Aaron Krall, LaRonika Marie Thomas, Laley Lippard, Laura A. Lodewyck, Meida McNeal, Travis Stern and Irina Zadov
Since Chicago’s founding, theater has blossomed in the city’s makeshift spaces, from taverns to parks, living rooms to storefronts. Makeshift Chicago Stages brings together leading historians...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state-subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises.
Queer Tidalectics investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics.
Sandra, newly widowed, discovers that her husband had been secretly corresponding with another woman. She embarks on a daring, improbable course of action that prompts her to reevaluate her marriage and her life.
Jacqueline Jones LaMon's stunning third collection shows the elements of life that unite us—and that separate us most profoundly. What Water Knows transports the reader from drought to drowning, from the transatlantic Middle Passage to the breaking of water.
