Thank you very much for this excellent presentation. In my comment I aim to render more explicit some fundamental tensions or contradictions between legal emancipation and queerness, which are at stake in your description of the legal frameworks for the protection of queers. It thereby reopens the question of the strategic choice between appealing…[Read more]

PrEP (Präexpositionsprophylaxe) ist ein relativ neues Mittel zur Prävention von HIV-Infektionen. HIV negative Menschen nehmen antivirale Medikamente ein, die verhindern, dass der Kontakt mit dem Virus zu einer Infektion führt. Im Gegensatz zum Kondomgebrauch basiert dieses Präventionsverfahren auf Medikamenten und nicht auf einer Ver…[Read more]

This article explores the way assumptions about gender prevalent in twenty-first century readers impact our understanding of Sarai. It interrogates the way a mere glimpse allows us to instantaneously assign a person gender, something trans theorist Julia Serano calls gendering. Through this article, we see how the third-party accounts of Sarai in…[Read more]

Shakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]

La pluralidad discursiva manifiesta en la actual música cubana se encuentra enmarcada en una realidad estético-musical cambiante, causada por una postmodernidad social cada vez más abierta a la globalización de las expresiones culturales de los pueblos. Es dentro de esta dinámica creativa que se hallan embebidos los performances musicales del cant…[Read more]

En Cuba, la mayoría de los estudios sobre patrimonio musical han estado centrados en las expresiones músico-danzarias que constituyen el patrimonio inmaterial del país. Igual de importantes son los documentos relativos a la práctica musical en la nación, puesto que constituyen el testimonio material del desarrollo alcanzado por las diversas corr…[Read more]

Buena Risa Social Club es un performance humorístico-musical del cantautor cubano-mexicano Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo”, quién lo presentó en el Café Antropía (León de Los Aldama, Guanajuato, México) el 30 de noviembre de 2018. Al tener en cuenta los pocos estudios realizados sobre sus composiciones performativas, para la presente com…[Read more]

“El humor en estos tiempos da cólera” (ca. 1986) es uno de los performances que escribió, musicalizó y dirigió el cantautor Alejandro García Villalón Virulo para el Conjunto Nacional de Espectáculos de Cuba. De éste se conserva una adaptación televisiva del Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión, que no ha sido abordada en investigacion…[Read more]

En la actualidad se manifiesta una pluralidad discursiva en la música cubana, donde la diversificación de sus soportes de difusión juega un papel fundamental para que determinados músicos sean tenidos como populares. Bajo esa tesitura, los Premios Lucas brindan una variedad de fuentes primarias incomparables, poco abordadas como objetos de est…[Read more]

Hasta hace poco, los estudios sobre las prácticas musicales al interior de una logia masónica cubana eran casi inexistentes. Con la identificación de la Música para ritual masónico de Ramón Figueroa Morales dentro del Archivo de Música de la Catedral de Santiago de Cuba (AMCSC), se dio el primer paso hacia el entendimiento del tema en cuesti…[Read more]

La pluralidad discursiva manifiesta en la música cubana se ha encontrado enmarcada en una realidad estético-musical cambiante, causada por una postmodernidad social cada vez más abierta a la globalización de las expresiones culturales de los pueblos. Es dentro de esta dinámica creativa que se encontraron inmersos los performances musicales del…[Read more]

The epilogue tackles the ramifications of these new modes of inscribing temporally and visually ambiguous articulations of Shakespeare and China into a global vernacular in theater (Lin Zhaohua’s Richard III) and cinema (Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet). A paradox of infatuation with Asian visuality and rejection of ethnic authenticity emerged in the…[Read more]

This chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?

Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]

Named the Writer of the Millennium, Shakespeare has come full circle and become a cliché, embraced by marketers and contested by intellectuals. Similar narratives about China’s rise in global stature have been told with equal gusto, championed and denounced in turn by optimists and critics. If Shakespeare now has worldwide currency, how is the se…[Read more]

Thanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]

In 1 Henry IV, Falstaff enacts his histrionic mock deposition scene, only to be usurped by England’s true heir, Prince Hal. Irate at his actorly demotion, Falstaff praises his own performance skills, while suggesting that, if found lacking, he should receive a punishment befitting his knightly status. Likening Falstaff to small game hanging in a s…[Read more]

Sedition Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev Edited by Vladimir A. Kozlov, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Sergei V. Mironenko Compiled by V. A. Kozlov and O. V. Edelman with assistance from E. Yu. Zavadskaia English edition edited and introduced by Sheila Fitzpatrick Translated by Olga Livshin English edition annotated…[Read more]

By contextualizing the trope of the “unaccommodated man” within Aristotelian notions of insufficiency, this article demonstrates that King Lear theorizes a communitarian politics, rather than one founded in sovereign authority. For late sixteen-century thinkers such as Richard Hooker, Pierre La Primaudaye, and Robert Persons, the vulnerability of…[Read more]

Review of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick

How might literary and cultural spheres intersect with the Anthropocene, the epoch — however defined — of humanity’s detectable influence at geological scale? What forms, genres, objects, and methodological lenses might prove most fertile in mediating between the concept’s abstraction and its concrete entailments for literary and cultural hi…[Read more]