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A first-rate analysis of the presentations (and absences) of images of homosexualities in twentieth-century Brazilian theater. - James Green, author of Beyond Carnival; Albuquerque's work... provides an archaeology of theatrical representations of homosexuality in Brazil, an alternative history of Brazilian theater from the margins, a critical analysis of canonical and non-canonical plays infused with the insights of feminist and queer theory, as well as a history of the representation of AIDS in Brazilian culture. - Fernando Arenas, University of Minnesota

""A first-rate analysis of the presentations (and absences) of images of homosexualities in twentieth-century Brazilian theater."" - James Green, author of Beyond Carnival; ""Albuquerque's work... provides an archaeology of theatrical representations of homosexuality in Brazil, an alternative history of Brazilian theater from the margins, a critical analysis of canonical and non-canonical plays infused with the insights of feminist and queer theory, as well as a history of the representation of AIDS in Brazilian culture."" - Fernando Arenas, University of Minnesota

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Severino J. Albuquerque is a professor of Portuguese and director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also coeditor of Luso-Brazilian Review and recipient of the 2002 Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.

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