Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer
- Submitting institution
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- SFAR2
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- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137411846
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9781349570287
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- ‘Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer’, co-edited by Stephen Farrier and Alyson Campbell, organises and connects international queer performance work across 21 peer-reviewed chapters. During the preparatory research, the editors noted that, unlike some recent queer theory, very little in queer performance deals with internationality. Where performance appears in theory, it is often in service of theoretical arguments rather than negotiating performance as a form. To address these gaps, Farrier and Campbell made an open call for contributions to connect with little-heard or new voices in the field and, supported by research (reading, networks, conferences), targeted specific contributors. The editors organised the chapters specifically to cohere the book into themes while re-orientating the discussion of queer performance practice in international contexts. By organising the work into sections (Queer Notions of Nation, Queer Returns: Locating Queer Temporalities and Queer Movements: Home and Away), Farrier and Campbell present ways of speaking of queer performance across international borders with a critical eye on resisting dominant Anglo-American viewpoints, which can be experienced as colonising by works and practices not identifying with dominant frames. Contributions authored by Farrier include a chapter on lip-synch and queer temporalities (7,990 words), and joint contributions with co-editor Campbell of an introduction (9,771 words) positioning an international approach to the field that articulates what performance might bring to queer ideas (rather than the other way around) and three conceptual section introductions (total 6,709 words), and an interview about cripqueer (a positionality where queer and disability intersect; 6,616 words). Reviews in peer-reviewed journals (Modern Drama, NTQ, STP, TRI) note how the research developed by the co-editors importantly conceptualises and orientates the field and indicates the direction of future work. The work was a shortlisted finalist for the inaugural TaPRA Research Prize for Editing.
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