Pass Fe White and Homestretch : Joan Miller's Satirical “Reads,” Refusals, and Affirmations
2021; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s014976772100022x
ISSN1940-509X
Autores Tópico(s)Theatre and Performance Studies
ResumoAbstract This article examines Joan Miller's use of choreographic citation in her solos, Pass Fe White (1970) and Homestretch (1973). The solos “read” the desire to embody idealized, feminine whiteness in a critique of institutions for accessing national belonging—celebrity, education, and marriage—satirically exposing the gendered and racialized exclusions of the figure of the abstract “human” as “proper” citizen. Miller's work performs queer, Black feminist, diasporic desires for a world beyond Black and white nationalist logics, refusing to be “properly” placed in national hierarchies of female objecthood, while affirming the capacity to desire differently by proposing alternative terms for belonging in the world.
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