Table of contents for A queer sort of materialism : recontextualizing American theater / David Savran.


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Part I: Historical Pageants

1. Middlebrow Anxiety 3

2. The Queerest Art 56

3. The Haunted Stages of Modernity 82

Part II: Closet Dramas

4. Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism:
How Angels in America Reconstructs the Nation  107

5. The Sadomasochist in the Closet: Sam Shepard, Robert Bly,
and the New White Masculinity 134

6. A Different Kind of Closet Drama; or, The Melancholy
Heterosexuality of Jane Bowles 155

7. Eat Me 170

8. In andOut 180

9. Paula Vogel as Male Impersonator 187
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Gay theater United States, American drama 20th century History and criticism, Gay men's writings, American, Homosexuality in literature, Sex role in literature