The Sense of Brown

José Esteban Muñoz (1967–2013) was Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and author of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity and Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Joshua Chambers-Letson is Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Tavia Nyong’o is Professor of American Studies, African American Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University.

Acknowledgments  vii
Editors' Introduction. The Aesthetic Resonance of Brown / Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o  ix
1. The Browns Commons  1
2. Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs)  8
3. The Onus of Seeing Cuba: Nilo Cruz's Cubanía  24
4. Meandering South: Isaac Julien and The Long Road to Mazatlán  29
5. "Chico, What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem?": The Transmission of Brownness  36
6. The Vulnerability Artist: Nao Bustamante and the Sad Beauty of Reparation  47
7. Queer Theater, Queer Theory: Luis Alfaro's Cuerpo Polizado  59
8. Performing the Bestiary: Carmelita Tropicana's With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit?/ Con Que Culo se Sienta la Cucaracha?  78
9. Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt  86
10. Wise Latinas  100
11. Brown Worldings: José Rodríguez-Soltero, Tania Bruguera, and María Irene Fornés  118
12. The Sense of Wildness: The Brown Commons after Paris Burned  128
13. Vitalism's Afterburn: The Sense of Ana Mendieta  141
Notes  151
Bibliography  167
Index  175