{"product_id":"black-queer-girlhood-on-the-la-donna-l-forsgren-9780197661406","title":"Black Queer Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage","description":"\u003cem\u003eBlack Queer Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new perspective on the creativity of contemporary Black women musical theatre artists, their representations of Black girlhood, and the Black queer feminist spectators who engage with their work. Creating a new model for Black queer feminist praxis, La Donna L. Forsgren engages with musical theatre scholarship, Black queer feminist criticism, reception studies, Black girlhood studies, and film and television studies, critiquing the gaps and silences within these fields. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach chapter uses Black queer feminist criticism and audience reception theories of popular culture to understand what meaning and pleasure Black queer spectators find in popular musical performances created by Black women. Through resistant readings of twenty contemporary musical theatre productions--from Broadway hits such as\u003cem\u003e The\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eColor Purple \u003c\/em\u003eand the televised broadcast of \u003cem\u003eThe Wiz Live! \u003c\/em\u003eto the less studied but popular gospel musical \u003cem\u003eMama, I Want to Sing!\u003c\/em\u003e--Forsgren demonstrates how the intersections of Black women's identity foster their ability to (at times) subvert and disrupt heterocentrism, sexism, and white cultural hegemony within the modes of theatre production. In so doing, \u003cem\u003eBlack Queer Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage\u003c\/em\u003e positions Black women's artistic work as a crucial component of politically engaged popular entertainment and renders Black queer feminist spectators visible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e La Donna L. Forsgren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197661408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197661406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d","brand":"La Donna L. Forsgren","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48801261322495,"sku":"9780197661406","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-queer-girlhood-on-the-la-donna-l-forsgren-9780197661406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}