After the Party
A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life
by Joshua Chambers-Letson

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Auteur(s)

Joshua Chambers-Letson

Uitgever

New York : New York University Press, 2018

Omvang

300 p., geïllustreerd, 23 cm.

ISBN

9781479832774

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'After the Party'considers performance as it is produced within and against overlapping histories of US colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy. Building upon the thought of José Esteban Muñoz alongside prominent scholarship in queer of color critique, black studies, and Marxist aesthetic criticism, Joshua Chambers-Letson maps a portrait of performance’s capacity to produce what he calls a communism of incommensurability, a practice of being together in difference. Describing performance as a rehearsal for new ways of living together,' After the Party' moves between slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, the first wave of the AIDS crisis, the Vietnam War, and the catastrophe-riddled horizon of the early twenty-first century to consider this worldmaking practice as it is born of the tension between freedom and its negation. With urgency and pathos, Chambers-Letson argues that it is through minoritarian performance that we keep our dead alive and with us as we struggle to survive an increasingly precarious present.

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Trefwoorden

slavery

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 29 - 2: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; diverse locaties

Extra thema's

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Opmerkingen

Incl. bibliographical references and Index