Whale Aria American Dramas & Plays The book follows campy performances

The book follows campy performances that imaginatively restage the camps that have been central to dominant narratives of Asian American history: Chinese railroad labor

with urgency during the mid-1980s AIDS crisis

he always focused on details

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Annie Adams is summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances

Whale Aria American Dramas & Plays The book follows campy performances"For seasons I was faceless trying to swallow constellations, to roll a star map on my tongue," recounts Rajiv Mohabir's speaker in "Boy with Baleen for Teeth." As formally visionary and acoustically attuned as ever, Mohabir has composed an interspecies opera in Whale Aria. This collection examines the humpback whale as a zoomorphic analog of the queer, brown, migratory speaker breaching these pages; just as a person navigates postcolonial queerness