The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape

In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer...
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Author: Katherine Brewer Ball
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The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape by Brewer Ball, Katherine

The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape

BD$63.85

The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape

BD$63.85
Author: Katherine Brewer Ball
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint. Stories of escape are never told just once but become mythic in their episodic iterations, revealing the fantasies and desires of society, the storyteller, and the listener. While white escape narratives have typically been laden with Enlightenment fantasies of redemption where freedom is available to any individual willing to seize it, Brewer Ball explores how Black and queer escape offer forms of radical possibility. Drawing on Black studies, queer theory, and performance studies, she examines a range of works, from nineteenth-century American literature to contemporary queer of color art and writing by contemporary American artists including Wilmer Wilson IV, Tourmaline, Tony Kushner, Junot Díaz, Glenn Ligon, Toshi Reagon, and Sharon Hayes. Throughout, escape emerges as a story not of individuality but of collectivity and entanglement.

Author: Katherine Brewer Ball
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/12/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781478030270

About the Author
Katherine Brewer Ball is Assistant Professor of Theater at Wesleyan University.

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