2024
DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2024-2010
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Queer Hope in Working-Class Performance: Scottee’s Bravado and Class

Amy Terry

Abstract: In contemporary Britain, the working-class subject is often portrayed as abject, deficient, and undeserving. In this article, I survey how mainstream theatre has often been complicit in replicating and authenticating these representations of the working class without offering an alternative. I argue that queer performance forms are a way of altering and undermining this narrative of working classness as a deficit. The queer working-class subject is defined by a sense of not fitting in to either the queer or wo… Show more

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