Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer TheoryOne of the first extended and theoretically informed investigations of queer theory's racial inscription, Queer Race understands race as inextricably sexualized, as sexuality is always racially marked. The book critically and playfully explores intellectual and political deployments of the term queer , gay pornographic videos about South Africa, contemporary literary representations of interracial gay desire, the writings of Gloria Anzald a, and Jeffrey Dahmer's criminal trial. Through these explorations, Queer Race charts a framework for understanding the race of queer theory that both tests queer theory's limits and suggests its future inter-relations with anti-racist work. |
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Page 44
... novel , the African - American narrator is derided by his radicalized black schoolmates and called an Uncle Tom by his white lover - these reminders of racial conflict are merely forgotten rather than resolved at the novel's ...
... novel , the African - American narrator is derided by his radicalized black schoolmates and called an Uncle Tom by his white lover - these reminders of racial conflict are merely forgotten rather than resolved at the novel's ...
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... novel ends with an apocalyptic cultural conflagration in the form of an ACT UP dance - riot . Kenneth , the black character in the novel , is the visible political activist in conventional terms . Evan , the white character , gradually ...
... novel ends with an apocalyptic cultural conflagration in the form of an ACT UP dance - riot . Kenneth , the black character in the novel , is the visible political activist in conventional terms . Evan , the white character , gradually ...
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... novel ; that is , in the action within the novel , and in the novel itself as an action . Kenneth and Evan are both actors . The television soap opera that finally makes Evan a star moves in and out of his other identities in the course ...
... novel ; that is , in the action within the novel , and in the novel itself as an action . Kenneth and Evan are both actors . The television soap opera that finally makes Evan a star moves in and out of his other identities in the course ...
Contents
The Men of South Africa | 19 |
Representing Race in the Discourse of Desire | 35 |
Gloria Anzaldúas Queer Mestisaje | 63 |
Copyright | |
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