Robert O’Hara’s insurrection: “Que(e)rying” history

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 186-204

  Carpenter, Faedra Chatard ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American theater; Authenticity; History; Queer theory; Robert O Hara

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007860030     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1046293032000141365     Document Type: Article

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