Whale Aria American Dramas & Plays a riverbank populated by birds

a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women--these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life

The book follows campy performances that imaginatively restage the camps that have been central to dominant narratives of Asian American history: Chinese railroad labor

gender-bending images

she goes to a party with her best friend--where she meets Eilam Roads

Whale Aria American Dramas & Plays a riverbank populated by birds"For seasons I was faceless trying to swallow constellations, to roll a star map on my tongue," recounts Rajiv Mohabir's speaker in "Boy with Baleen for Teeth." As formally visionary and acoustically attuned as ever, Mohabir has composed an interspecies opera in Whale Aria. This collection examines the humpback whale as a zoomorphic analog of the queer, brown, migratory speaker breaching these pages; just as a person navigates postcolonial queerness