Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible

'black Performance On The Outskirts Of The Left' Illustrates The Black Political Ideas That Radicalized The Artistic Endeavours Of Musicians, Playwrights, And Actors Beginning In The 1960s. These Ideas Paved The Way For Imaginative Models For Social Transformation Through Performance. Using The Notion Of Excess - Its Transgression, Multiplicity, And Ambivalence - Malik Gaines Considers How Performances Of That Era Circulated A Black Political Discourse Capable Of Unsettling Commonplace Understandings Of Race, Gender, And Sexuality. Nina Simone's Quadruple Consciousness -- Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, The State, And The Stage -- The Radical Ambivalence Of Günther Kaufmann -- The Cockettes, Sylvester, And Performance As Life -- Afterword : A History Of Impossible Progress. Malik Gaines. Previously Issued In Print: 2017. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 213-221) And Index.