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Blue Roses: Tennessee Williams, Memory, and the Queer Archive
Blue Roses documents a queer response to one of the most popular American playwrights of the twentieth century: Tennessee Williams. Referencing Williams's symbolic nickname for Laura in The Glass Menagerie, Daniel Ciba arranges archival memories that provoke, resist, and reimagine Williams's contribution to LGBTQ+ culture. Ciba theorizes new archival methodologies that blend memory studies, queer theory, and theatre historiography. Each blue rose is an untold story of queer history that corresponds to a different period of Williams's life, from World War II to the Lavender Scare and the Stonewall uprising.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Iowa Press
- Publish Date: Jun 23rd, 2026
- Pages: 302
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781685970758
- Categories: • American - General• LGBTQ+• Theater - History & Criticism
About the Author
Ciba, Daniel: - Daniel Ciba is the costume shop manager for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. He has served as the associate editor of the Studies in Theatre History and Culture Series for the University of Iowa Press. Ciba lives in Morristown, New Jersey.
Praise for this book
"Daniel Ciba offers a fresh and thoughtful queer reading of Tennessee Williams's work, tracing how memory, desire, and performance intersect in the plays and their afterlives. This is a valuable contribution to Williams scholarship."--Eric Colleary, curator of performing arts, Harry Ransom Center
"Daniel Ciba took a turn-every-page approach as he scoured multiple archives to discover connections--blue roses--that long lurked in letters, journals, unpublished manuscripts, contracts, and photographs, all awaiting their decoder. The originality of Ciba's monumental undertaking makes it essential for Tennessee Williams studies."--Felicia Hardison Londré, curators' distinguished professor emerita, University of Missouri-Kansas City
"Ciba scrupulously tags each floral reference, accumulates them and then assembles them into a conclusive whole. He is meticulous in distinguishing different degrees of evidence, from the least likely to the most likely. This rigor gives his approach substance. . . . Because Ciba draws upon a range of source materials, we get rewarding glimpses of the dramatist's interpersonal relationships and attitudes, from battling with critic Eric Bentley to sparring with Gore Vidal, from the perspective of Margo Jones to that of his executor Maria St. Just."-- Stuart J. Hecht, author, Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and American Musical