Staging the family unfamiliar: the queer intimacies in Ramble-Ations: A One D'Lo Show. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pérez, Kimberlee
• Is Part Of: Text and performance quarterly. Volume 39:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 371
• Page End: 387
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Stage -- personal narrative -- queer intimacy -- family storytelling -- audience; Oral communication -- Periodicals; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; 302.224205
• DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2018.1457174
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1046-2937

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Queer personal narratives that include family storytelling draw attention to normative conventions that produce queer family members' sexuality as a "stage" through which they pass. Simultaneously, queer personal narratives call on nonnormative discourses to generate queer worldmaking sites of kinship and belonging. In this essay, I look to the ways D'Lo's Ramble-Ations: A One D'Lo Show uses personal narrative and family storytelling to stage refusals and reconfigurations of familiar splits among race, sexuality, and gender. Using performative writing and critical analysis, I use stages and stagings to argue the family unfamiliar opens queer intimate relations with and through an audience.