Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall
Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall
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出局和糟糕：牙买加舞厅的酷儿表演诠释学
DOI：
10.1215/07990537-1334212
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发表时间：
2011
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0.6
通讯作者：
N. Ellis
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作者：
N. Ellis
这篇文章为我所说的舞厅文化的“酷儿表演解释学”提供了一组读物。它认为，尽管DanceHall看起来是严格的异性恋，但在它的文化中有一些同性恋表演的模式，这种模式甚至可能是由它对同性恋恐惧症的各种论述所促成的。我建议，发展一种将酷儿理论、非洲散居者研究、舞厅研究和表演研究结合在一起的解释性实践，将使人们能够阅读舞厅中那些超出或违背舞厅歌词中规范话语的元素。我提供街舞中男性舞者的读物，舞厅俱乐部之夜的喜剧插曲，以及舞厅的视频，每一个视频都提供了阅读舞厅文化中的“酷儿”的机会。
This article provides a set of readings toward what I am calling a “queer performance hermeneutic” of dancehall culture. It argues that although dancehall appears to be rigidly heteronormative, there are modes of queer performance within its culture, modes that may even be enabled by its various discourses of homophobia. I suggest that the development of an interpretative practice that brings together queer theory, African diasporic studies, dancehall studies, and performance studies will enable the reading of those elements of dancehall that exceed or go against the grain of normative discourses in dancehall lyrics. I offer readings of male dance crews at street dances, a comedy interlude at a dancehall club night, and a dancehall video, each of which provides the opportunity to read “the queer” in dancehall culture.