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HIV/AIDS in American theatre :|queerness, spatio-temporalities, and emancipation

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in English Literature.
dc.contributor.advisor Fişek, Emine.
dc.contributor.author Duman, Çağdaş Özerk.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:05:40Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:05:40Z
dc.date.issued 2020.
dc.identifier.other EL 2020 D86
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16513
dc.description.abstract This thesis examines American HIV/AIDS theater in the context of time and space. Drawing mainly from queer approaches to time and space, it explores the plays of Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz (1990), Cheryl L. West’s Before It Hits Home (1990), and Harry Kondoleon’s Zero Positive (1989), respectively. This study, first and foremost, aims to discover overlooked queer politics and spatio-temporal potentialities embedded in these plays. Torsten Graff suggests that queer theory, especially textually, neglects drama. It would not be wrong to say that, apart from some canonized plays, the potentials of HIV/AIDS theater have been overlooked by queer criticism. For that reason, this study aims to awaken these ostensibly dormant queer potentialities as well as to enhance their (re)visitability. Also catalyzed by Erving Goffman’s influential study on “Stigma,” and offering a concept of the “spatio-temporal stigma,” this study shows how this normative duress exacerbates the extant stigma on queer and black PLHIV. Ultimately, it also argues that theatre intervenes such oppressions, providing a liberating alternative spatio-temporality, and thus, heralding a resistant transformation.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020.
dc.subject.lcsh Theater -- United States.
dc.subject.lcsh HIV infections -- United States.
dc.title HIV/AIDS in American theatre :|queerness, spatio-temporalities, and emancipation
dc.format.pages ix, 105 leaves ;


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