Abstract
Tim Miller has established himself as a critical voice in the development of gay male culture in the United States. For over twenty years, Miller has used performance as a way of addressing US policy, AIDS activism, community building, and the importance of private lives in public contexts. This essay is a tropological analysis across Miller’s oeuvre. Themes analyzed include the clean, anal body; whiteness, maleness, and their (unnamed) privileges; suffering, pleasure, and self-making; roles of an audience-as-community; and rhetorics of justice.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 253-270 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Text and Performance Quarterly |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2003 |
Keywords
- Gay male culture
- Performance criticism
- Tim Miller
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
- Literature and Literary Theory