Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History

by Jaclyn Pryor

This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Jaclyn I. Pryor introduces the concept of "time slips," moments in which past, present, and future coincide, moments that challenge American narratives of racial and sexual citizenship.
Framing performance as a site of resistance, Pryor analyzes their own work and that of four other queer artists--Ann Carlson, Mary Ellen Strom,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810135302
• ISBN13: 9780810135307
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"