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EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE CLOISTER: Victorian England's Queer Catholicism

O'Malley, P. R. — 2009-08-24

The cultural construction of Roman Catholicism in England shifted in the middle decades of the nineteenth century from being constituted as a series of acts to being understood as a subjectivity experienced as authentic interiority. Even as various British Victorian figures, for example John Henry Newman, engaged in particular ways with both nonmajoritarian religious and sexual identities, Catholicism thus prefigures the admittedly uneven consolidations of sexuality that Michel Foucault has identified in the last third of the century. Thus an understanding of religious history is central to a history of sexuality.

LOOKING FOR M--: Queer Temporality, Black Political Possibility, and Poetry from the Future

Keeling, K. — 2009-08-24

Daniel Peddle's film The Aggressives makes perceptible an intolerable yet quotidian violence, as the index of our time. Putting queer theories of temporality into proximity with anticolonial ones, this essay seeks to remain aware of what in The Aggressives escapes attempts to contain it yet nonetheless can be felt and perceived even though—or especially if—it remains unrecognizable or unintelligible to our current common senses. We can think of what escapes these operations as the content that exceeds its expression, that through which poetry from the future might be perceived yet not recognized. Poetry from the future interrupts the habitual formation of bodies, and it is an index of a time to come in which what exists potently, even if not (yet) effectively, today but escapes us will find its time.

GAY MARRIAGE AND PULP FICTION: Homonormativity, Disidentification, and Affect in Ann Bannon's Lesbian Novels

Carter, J. — 2009-08-24

Currently, most explorations of homonormativity privilege political interpretations. In contrast, this essay brackets political analysis of homonormativity's effects in order to attend more closely to the affect that helps motivate homonormative choices. Though from an external, critical perspective, particular alliances with dominant power structures may often look like blatant and cynical attempts at self-advancement, there is abundant evidence that they are more often experienced as emotionally driven, personal choices that are different from political ones and superior to them as guides for intimate behavior. Attending to this dimension of homonormative experience not only shifts current queer conversations about norms but also extends the relevance of such conversations back into the past. Ann Bannon's midcentury lesbian paperback novels are rich sources of information about the socially produced emotional situations that helped push Cold War-era gay and lesbian people into alliances with heterosexist institutions and values such as marriage. In Bannon's novels, "gay marriage" appears as a kind of representational shorthand for a happy resolution to what I suspect was the common midcentury gay dilemma of how to be both erotically and emotionally deviant, and socially conventional. Bannon depicts that dilemma as a painful suspension between simultaneous disidentifications with heterosexuality and queer abrasiveness to dominant cultural norms. Thus exploring the fantasy of gay marriage in these pulp fictions not only sheds historical light on the affective dimensions of homonormativity but also raises theoretically significant questions about the definition and political ramifications of disidentification.

COMING TO TERMS WITH THE IN-BETWEEN: A Graduate Student Forum on Being Queer in Media Studies

Juhasz, A., Ma, M.-Y. S. — 2009-08-24

Six graduate students working within media studies reflect upon their experiences and studies evidencing a shared attention to the "in-betweens" of identity formation, graduate school, disciplines, and professional practices. All seek and speak with a queer voice to address how power plays out in graduate school, often in the minute exercises of discipline and learning understood through sexual metaphors. The authors also exhibit a noteworthy interest and investment in popular culture that leads each to consider the larger implications of their intellectual work.

TO A QUEER DEGREE

Moore, C. — 2009-08-24

QUEER MOTHER OF COLOR

DeClue, J. — 2009-08-24

THE BIG SELL

Cho, A. — 2009-08-24

ALREADY DOING QUEER STUDIES, STILL

Seymour, N. — 2009-08-24

MAPPING QUEER OF COLOR METHODOLOGY

Zepeda, S. — 2009-08-24

GOING BOTH WAYS: BEING QUEER AND ACADEMIC IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Beard, D. — 2009-08-24

IMAGINED, DESIRED: Coming of Age with Queer Ethnographies

Herbst, L. E. — 2009-08-24

In this review I introduce readers to three exemplary ethnographies. All three contribute not only to anthropological and queer studies literatures but also to discourses and critiques of globalization, transnationalism, and neoliberalism. Further, these works destabilize notions of what constitutes ethnography in the general field of queer studies and demonstrate that queer anthropology is imperative to consider in present and future developments in queer theory, methods, and analyses. These texts argue that it is time to move beyond the search for that which is "queer" as emerging from "tradition." They demonstrate that social constructions of queer subjectivities are ever-changing and emerging in contemporary historical contexts, often in relation to the nation-state and against hegemonic Euro-American notions of what is considered "queer."

THE WORLD-MAKING PRACTICES OF QUEER YOUTH

Faris, M. J. — 2009-08-24

MOVING ACROSS AND BEYOND BOUNDARIES

Kelly, R. C. — 2009-08-24

POSTURE OF THE PHALLUS

Van Leer, D. — 2009-08-24

NEW SPELLINGS OF "OUR" CARIBBEAN(S)

O'Connell, G. — 2009-08-24

LIVE TO TELL

Rodriguez, R. T. — 2009-08-24

About the Contributors

2009-08-24