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Hedwig revisited

2015; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 23; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/0966369x.2015.1073700

1360-0524

Jillian Sandell,

Asian Culture and Media Studies

The mainstream success of the 2014 Broadway revival of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch is in stark contrast to the precarity of the central protagonist’s life and the communities out of which the original Hedwig production emerged. While these tensions reveal some of the complicities between homonormativity, gentrification, and neoliberalism, by tracing Hedwig’s other genealogies, a more complicated vision of queer possibility emerges.