Sext of Saudade

Afzal-Khan, Fawzia; Lanzillotto, Annie Rachele

doi:10.1162/dram.2010.54.2.51

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June 01 2010

Sext of Saudade

Fawzia Afzal-Khan,

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Fawzia Afzal-Khan is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English, and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Montclair State University, NJ. She has published articles on feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and Pakistani politics and culture; has authored two books including A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan (Seagull, 2005); and is editor of two anthologies, including Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out (Interlink, 2005). Her memoir, Lahore with Love: Growing Up with Girlfriends Pakistani Style, is forthcoming from Syracuse University Press (March 2010). She is a published poet and playwright, as well as a vocalist trained in the North Indian Classical tradition.

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Annie Rachele Lanzillotto

Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is a Bronx-born private pilot, lesbian poet. She writes, acts, directs, and produces works in her community, and spins ice. For the 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, she was named one of “200 essential New Yorkers,” representing New York in CityLore's NYC Neighborhood Tent on the green in Washington, DC, with her installation A Stickball Memoir. Publications include memoir essays, “Cosa Mangia Oggi” in Gastropolis: New York City and Food (Columbia University Press, 2008) and “Nine Eleven Breadballs” in Foods of Affection (Voices In Italian Americana, 2008). She has performed at Dixon Place, the Kitchen, the Arthur Avenue Retail Market, and the Smithsonian, amongst others.

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Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Fawzia Afzal-Khan is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English, and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Montclair State University, NJ. She has published articles on feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and Pakistani politics and culture; has authored two books including A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan (Seagull, 2005); and is editor of two anthologies, including Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out (Interlink, 2005). Her memoir, Lahore with Love: Growing Up with Girlfriends Pakistani Style, is forthcoming from Syracuse University Press (March 2010). She is a published poet and playwright, as well as a vocalist trained in the North Indian Classical tradition.

Annie Rachele Lanzillotto

Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is a Bronx-born private pilot, lesbian poet. She writes, acts, directs, and produces works in her community, and spins ice. For the 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, she was named one of “200 essential New Yorkers,” representing New York in CityLore's NYC Neighborhood Tent on the green in Washington, DC, with her installation A Stickball Memoir. Publications include memoir essays, “Cosa Mangia Oggi” in Gastropolis: New York City and Food (Columbia University Press, 2008) and “Nine Eleven Breadballs” in Foods of Affection (Voices In Italian Americana, 2008). She has performed at Dixon Place, the Kitchen, the Arthur Avenue Retail Market, and the Smithsonian, amongst others.

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2010

TDR/The Drama Review (2010) 54 (2 (T206)): 51–59.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2010.54.2.51

Abstract

Sext of Saudade, the precursor to Jihad Against Violence, is a collaboration between a Pakistani American woman and an Italian American woman. The play interrogates the contradictions and corroborations within a butch/femme dynamic informed by various identity markers including gender, sexuality, class, and race.

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