The Domain-Matrix Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture [Paperback]

This book demonstrates Cases continued dominance of the field of lesbian performance studies.... Cases dense, rich, and complex work very likely will be a central text for anyone interested in debating the changing theoretical landscape for performance studies and queer theory. All readers interested in what the future might hold for scholarship in the humanities should study Cases thought-provoking work, which is an essential addition to any college or universitys collection. Choice

... this is a book that is enormously provocative, that will make you think and feel connected with the latest speculation on the implications of the electronic age we inhabit. Lesbian Review of Books

... definitely required reading for any future-thinking lesbian. Lambda Book Report

The Domain-Matrix is about the passage from print culture to electronic screen culture and how this passage affects the reader or computer user. Sections are organized to emulate, in a printed book, the readers experience of computer windows. Case traces the portrait of virtual identities within queer and lesbian critical practice and virtual technologies.

SUE-ELLEN CASE is Professor of English at the University of CaliforniaRiverside and past editor of Theatre Journal. Among her publications are the pioneering book Feminism and Theater and the ground-breaking article Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE DOMAIN-MATRIX: CRUISING SURFING THE MATRIX

I. Re-Charging Essentialism
A. Queer Performativity
B. Burying the Live Body
C. Performing Reading
D. The End of Print Culture

II. Toward a Politics of Space
A. Semio-Space
B. Cyberspace
C. Getting the Point
D. Voudou
E. Lesbian, Siamesian Space Cadets

III. First Contact: Murderous Heavenly Creatures
A. Matricide Engenders Nation
B. Rope-ing in the Virtual
C. Swoon-ing into Cyberspace
D. The Prison of Prints Return

IV. The Computer ClX