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The “villainous homosexual” has long stalked America’s cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society’s understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when em...
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oapen-20.500.12657-641902023-07-28T03:13:50Z Murder Most Queer Schildcrout, Jordan Theater and Performance Sexuality Studies American Studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups The “villainous homosexual” has long stalked America’s cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society’s understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when employed by LGBT theater artists themselves to explore darker fears and desires. Murder Most Queer examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in American theater over a century, showing how these representations wrestle with and ultimately subvert notions of gay villainy. 2023-07-27T14:00:32Z 2023-07-27T14:00:32Z 2014 book ONIX_20230727_9780472904112_81 9780472904112 9780472003785 9780472052325 9780472072323 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64190 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9780472904112.pdf 9780472904112.epub University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.6949764 10.3998/mpub.6949764 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 b5941080-3f20-4864-95c6-753acff7c9f4 9780472904112 9780472003785 9780472052325 9780472072323 Big Ten Open Books Ann Arbor [...] Big Ten Open Books Big Ten Open Books — Gender and Sexuality Studies Collection Big Ten Academic Alliance open access |
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The “villainous homosexual” has long stalked America’s cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society’s understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when employed by LGBT theater artists themselves to explore darker fears and desires. Murder Most Queer examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in American theater over a century, showing how these representations wrestle with and ultimately subvert notions of gay villainy. |
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