"Transitions: Marking Endings and Beginnings"
Schylkill's 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
April 9-10, 1999
Temple University, Philadelphia
Abstracts are being actively solicited for the session on "American
Theatre/Theory, Post-AIDS,"a panel that will examine how the advent of
AIDS has changed not only the course of queer theatre but contemporary
American drama in particular. With the arrival of the first wave of the
AIDS epidemic, gay lives seemed to have taken over the theatre,
corresponding to an increased visibility of gays and lesbians throughout
our society. In addition, gay and lesbian playwrights have created works
that have redefined the mainstream of American theatre.
This session will address issues in contemporary American drama that
explore the development of the unique character of gay culture into a
central factor in today's theatre. How have writers such as Tony Kushner,
Terrence McNally,Paula Vogel, Chay Yew, David Henry Hwang, Pomo Afro Homos
and others contributed to the redirection of American drama? What
exigencies of the AIDS crisis inform the work and characterize or
problematize it? How can we create a gay epistemology of contemporary
"mainstream" theatre? Does queer theory validate the rise of the
phenomenon, or has the nature of queer theory itself changed in response?
Theoretical, textual, and cross-disciplinary approaches are all welcome.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words, in hard copy or
electronic form, by February 26, 1999, to:
Donald P. Gagnon
University of South Florida
Department of English
Cooper Hall
Tampa, FL 33620
Im4brodway@aol.com
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