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The Elephant, the Mouse, and the Lesbian National Park Rangers
From: In a Queer Country
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Whether the discussion is of a queer nation or a queer country, citizenship must be a concern, but to follow the usual assumptions about the gay community, so must spectacle and display. bj wray’s "The Elephant, the Mouse, and the Lesbian National Park Rangers" touches on all of these. As the rangers, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan play with the lesbian as citizen, the lesbian as spectacle, the lesbian as endangered species, and even the lesbian as predator, all in a highly camp piece of performance art. wray problematizes the project and yet comes to the conclusion that they "reinvigorate the activist potentials of nationalism."
Contributors
bj wray
BJ Wray currently holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Davis. She is working on a book-length project, Performing Sexual Citizenship, which examines the relationship between national and sexual identities in contemporary American and Canadian lesbian performance art. Publications include "Choreographing Queer" in Dancing Bodies, Living Histories (Banff Centre, Press 2000) and "Structure, Size and Play: The Case of the Talking Vulva" in Decompositions: Postdisciplinary Performance (Indiana University Press, 2000).BJ Wray currently holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Davis. She is working on a book-length project, Performing Sexual Citizenship, which examines the relationship between national and sexual identities in contemporary American and Canadian lesbian performance art. Publications include "Choreographing Queer" in Dancing Bodies, Living Histories (Banff Centre, Press 2000) and "Structure, Size and Play: The Case of the Talking Vulva" in Decompositions: Postdisciplinary Performance (Indiana University Press, 2000).
