{"product_id":"performing-the-queer-past-public-possessions-paperback","title":"Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFintan Walsh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnja Hartl\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWilliam C. Boles\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Tender and rigorous, this book invites readers to linger with difficult pasts and consider how best to grasp their hauntings, demands and manifestations in the present. This is a book about mourning as well as holding, a simultaneous act of exhumation and a laying to rest.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eanna six, author of \u003ci\u003eMadness, Art, and Society: Beyond Illness \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is an extraordinary book, in which queer theatre and performance become sites of celebration and resistance, as well as holding the potential for performers and audiences to work through painfully felt yet difficult to articulate experiences towards feelings of hope. Replete with rigorous, generous and creative readings, it is also a meditation on Walsh's own emotional engagement with queer theatre and performance, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand how our cultural attachments can sustain, enliven and contain us.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Noreen Giffney, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy do contemporary queer theatre and performance appear to be possessed by the past? What aesthetic practices and dramaturgical devices reveal the occupation of the present by painful history? How might the experience of theatre and performance relieve the present of its most arduous burdens? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing recent legislation and cultural initiatives across many Western countries hailed as confirming the darkest days for LGBTQ+ people were over, this book turns our attention to artists fixed on history's enduring harm. Guiding us through an eclectic range of examples including theatre, performance, installation and digital practices, Fintan Walsh explores how this work reckons with complex cultural and personal histories. Among the issues confronted are the incarceration of Oscar Wilde, the Holocaust, racial and sexual objectification, the AIDS crisis and Covid-19, alongside more local and individual experiences of violence, trauma and grief. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWalsh traces how the queer past is summoned and interrogated via what he elaborates as the aesthetics and dramaturgies of possession, which lend form to the still-stinging aches and generative potential of injury, injustice and loss. These strategies expose how the past continues to haunt and disturb the present, while calling on those of us who feel its force to respond to history's unresolved hurt.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFintan Walsh\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Performing Arts and Humanities and Director of Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His recent books include the collection \u003ci\u003eTheatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance \u003c\/i\u003e(Methuen Drama 2020) and the monograph \u003ci\u003eQueer Performance and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemporary Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). Fintan is a former editor of the \u003ci\u003eTheatre Research International, \u003c\/i\u003e and editor of the book series Contemporary Performance Texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47219786678521,"sku":"9781350298002","price":71.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/GexCzADsit9781350298002.webp?v=1768170237","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/performing-the-queer-past-public-possessions-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}