The Punk Show
Queering heritage in the Black diaspora
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4861543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alix Chapman (Tulane University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 327-345 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0921374014542178 |
| OpenAlex | W2052953390 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article presents ethnography of Black cultural politics in post-flood New Orleans during the summer and fall of 2009. I engage in three interrelated subjects: (1) life histories and oral narratives in which I trace a history of Black queer performances locally referred to as "Punk Shows"; (2) my observations of a community play in which heritage, Black queer subjectivity, and the struggle over communal memory intersect; and (3) a broader discussion of the ways power is constituted by the shaping of history and communal memory to narrate race and sexuality. I argue that some ways of life are constructed as timeless, recuperable, and productive to the nation rather than ephemeral and contradictory. In arguing for a theory of Black queer generation, I deploy performance studies to valorize the "ephemeral" history of their cultural labor
Aesthetics · Art · Black Power · Diaspora · Ephemeral key · Ethnography · Human sexuality · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Subjectivity · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
The Black Dancing Body
Cities of the Dead
How To Do Things With Words
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens
The Race for Theory
The Amalgamation Waltz
The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity
An Archive of Feelings
Touching Feeling
Performance as Intravention
Punk'd Theory
Scenes of Subjection
In a Queer Time and Place
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |