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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Queer Desire"”.
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Prose Rhythm and Queer Desire
… Victorian period, to assert a connection between queer object choice and generic hybridity. It contextualises the works in question as being on the cusp of both a liberalisation of traditional boundaries drawn between verse and prose, and a revolution in the conception of same-sex desire. Through …
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(Un)Exceptional: Representations of the Marginalisation of Black Female Queer Desire in Chinelo Okparanta's “Under the Udala Trees” and Leona Beasley's “Something Better Than Home”
… and persecute same-sex desiring people, queer people in both contexts continue to be marginalised and face similar challenges that are a result or cause of this marginalisation. This comparative thesis of Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees and Leona Beasley's Something Better Than …
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« L'illusion de l'amour n'est pas l'amour trouvé » : Camp and queer desire in Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and Peau d'âne
… that thematizes and aestheticizes lack and desire in ways that can speak directly to the queer viewer. This thesis first situates the films among criticism from the 1960s to the present, opening a discourse on the potential for diverse political and aesthetic readings of Demy's work that …
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Autoscopy
… reimagined mode of kinship, using diasporic and queer desire as a means of reparation.
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The Letters of Ronald Johnson and Jonathan Williams: Edited, with a biographical and critical introduction by Devin King
… with reference to Jeanne Heuving’s work about queer desire in Robert Duncan’s poetry and Daniel Katz’s analysis of Jack Spicer’s poetics of “co-respondence.” I argue for Williams and Johnson’s version of collaboration: not sharing authorship but allowing the poem to develop through contact with …
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The Queer Work of Fantasy: The Romance in Antebellum America
… theorized the relationship between fantasy and queer desire. These writers produced vision of alternative forms of sociality that serve to criticize the heteronormativity of antebellum sexual culture and to promote fantasy as both a mode of critique and a strategy for cultural subversion. …
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Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company
How do queer texts engage traditional perceptions of family, nation, and the literary canon? How do readers and writers connect with their predecessors? Natasha Tanna explores lesbian and queer desire through three authors based in Barcelona, a key locus of queer cultural production. Her analysis …
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Deviant bodies and the reordering of desire: Heterosexuality and nation-building in early modern England
… my study argues that the disruptive presence of queer desire plays an integral role in shaping the emerging, interrelated discourses of heterosexuality and nationalism in early modern culture. Looking at heterosexuality as a complex structure organizing political and sexual relations, my project …
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Bernini Started It
… conception. Bernini has inserted an other, a queer, an abject form of the revered sacrifices upon the altar. They’re all fluids; they’re all flesh. Yet the ones above hold a godly and masculine power, whereas the feminine fluids below are execrated and feared within the western Catholic …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… investigation explores concealment as a queer strategy in figurative painting. The studio research consists of a body of paintings in which discernible pictorial and conceptual veils hide queer desire in plain view. It is underpinned by critical theory that proposes opacity as an …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… investigation explores concealment as a queer strategy in figurative painting. The studio research consists of a body of paintings in which discernible pictorial and conceptual veils hide queer desire in plain view. It is underpinned by critical theory that proposes opacity as an …
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This corner of Canaan: curriculum studies of place and the reconstruction of the South
… curriculum of nostalgia, homeplace, grace, and queerness. I investigate aspects of Southern place and feeling Southern that are submerged in conventional white patriarchal notions of Southern identity. My narrative allows some of these anomalous forms of Southernness to surface and, out of these …
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Reorienting Response: An Ethnography of Old Age, Disability, and Queer Lives in Canada
… on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork among queer and trans older adults residing in long-term care homes and living with disabilities and receiving care for chronic conditions in Toronto, Canada. From 2016-2017, building on preliminary fieldwork in 2015, I spent my days with nine key …
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Queer (Dis)locations: Klaus Mann's Early Works and Weimar Homosexual Culture (1919-1933)
… of non-normative ways of being, informed by queer desire, in the early works of German writer Klaus Mann (1906–1949), written during the Weimar Republic (1919–1933). Specifically, I read Mann against the backdrop of Weimar homosexual culture and its debates around homosexual emancipation, …