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Jewish/Queer: Thresholds of Vulnerable Identities in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America"
Ist Teil von
Shofar (West Lafayette, Ind.), 2007-06, Vol.25 (4), p.78-98
Ort / Verlag
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
For many, it has long seemed apparent that in his two-part "gay fantasia," Angels in Amtrica, Kushner aspired to forge some vital but unspoken alliance between Judaism and gay struggle. For many, this remains one of the plays most interesting and yet not altogether coherent arguments. Yet when one considers the myriad of ways that Judaism always presumes a community of believers and more importantly, ethical adherents bound to one another and God by covenant, the politics of Angels cannot be isolated from its relation to Judaisms understanding of the sacred status of the stranger. By considering Judaisms intrinsic relation to "prophecy" as a rigorous mission of social progress, the coherence of Kushner's vision of men and angels emerges with greater clarity. In recasting the biblical outsider as AIDS victim, Kushner sought to reconfigure the encoded tribalism of liberation, to ensure that the prophetic message of the sacred texts was restated in the most inclusive terms possible.