Reviews
"Pryor writes as an artist, an intellectual, and an activist who refuses divisions between theory and practice, life and art. With breath-taking eloquence and power, Time Slips demonstrates how we see, imagine, and renew our faith in the possible." --Jill Dolan, author of Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, "For those well versed in performance studies--and its requisite conversations in historical memory and political redress, traumatic inscription and forced erasure--this book will read as queer kin." -- The Drama Review " Time Slips opens a new chapter in performance history. Paying careful attention to a range of live queer performances, Pryor narrates in gorgeous detail the temporal ruptures opened by queer performance. Rather than lead these ruptures to a moment of closure, Pryor lets it all hang out and asks their readers to also experience these large and small slips of time. The results are stunning." --Jack Halberstam, author of In A Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives and The Queer Art of Failure, "A lively read, Time Slips is filled with excellent research and fascinating case studies concerned with some of the most freighted issues in contemporary politics. Time Slips will interest scholars in a number of different fields, including but not limited to theater and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, visual studies, cultural studies, and American studies." --Sara Warner, author of Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure "Pryor writes as an artist, an intellectual, and an activist who refuses divisions between theory and practice, life and art. With breath-taking eloquence and power, Time Slips demonstrates how we see, imagine, and renew our faith in the possible." --Jill Dolan, author of Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, "How can we perform trauma? How do we represent erasure? Time Slips explores elusive yet consequential problems of a disappearing history with great critical insight and feeling, showing us how performance functions as an indispensable site of transformation and redress." --David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy, "Pryor writes as an artist, an intellectual, and an activist who refuses divisions between theory and practice, life and art. With breathtaking eloquence and power, Time Slips demonstrates how we see, imagine, and renew our faith in the possible." --Jill Dolan, author of Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, " Time Slips opens a new chapter in performance history. Paying careful attention to a range of live queer performances, Pryor narrates in gorgeous detail the temporal ruptures opened by queer performance. Rather than lead these ruptures to a moment of closure, Pryor lets it all hang out and asks her readers to also experience these large and small slips of time. The results are stunning." --Jack Halberstam, author of In A Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives and The Queer Art of Failure, "A lively read, Time Slips is filled with excellent research and fascinating case studies concerned with some of the most freighted issues in contemporary politics. Time Slips will interest scholars in a number of different fields, including but not limited to theater and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, visual studies, cultural studies, and American studies." --Sara Warner, author of Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure , "How can we perform trauma? How do we represent erasure? Time Slips explores elusive yet consequential problems of a disappearing history with great critical insight and feeling; showing us how performance functions as an indispensable site of transformation and redress." --David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy "Jaclyn has a way of describing things in a way that surprises me. They write not just as a critic, which is always a relief to me, but as someone who wants to expand our knowledge and insights of how performances affect people in unexpected ways." --Peggy Shaw " Time Slips balances theory and practice beautifully in a unique mode of thinking and writing. Pryor argues that performance can transform how we think about time, reminding us of the genuine change we can make through our interventions." --Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, author of Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance and Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field, "How can we perform trauma? How do we represent erasure? Time Slips explores elusive yet consequential problems of a disappearing history with great critical insight and feeling; showing us how performance functions as an indispensable site of transformation and redress." --David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy, " Time Slips balances theory and practice beautifully in a unique mode of thinking and writing. Pryor argues that performance can transform how we think about time, reminding us of the genuine change we can make through our interventions." --Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, author of Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance and Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field , " Time Slips opens a new chapter in performance history. Paying careful attention to a range of live queer performances, Pryor narrates in gorgeous detail the temporal ruptures opened by queer performance. Rather than lead these ruptures to a moment of closure, Pryor lets it all hang out and asks their readers to also experience these large and small slips of time. The results are stunning." --Jack Halberstam, author of In A Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives and The Queer Art of Failure
