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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Queer kinship."”.
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Mensura Incognita: Queer Kinship, Camp Aesthetics, and Juvenal's Ninth Satire
… reassessing the ninth satire in the context of queer theory and camp aesthetics. Chapter One traces the homophobic tendencies in the modern reception of Juvenal 9 across reception modalities including expurgation, biographical criticism, and persona theory. Chapter Two reviews relevant concepts …
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"""We are here because you were there"": Kinship and loss in 20th- and 21st-century Korean American Narratives"
“We are Here Because You were There”: Kinship and Loss in 20th- and 21st-Century Korean American Narratives analyzes the significance of trauma and attachment in representations of family within contemporary Korean American literature and films. Situating these texts in relation to Asian American …
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“Mother has arrived!” : History, Race, and Family as Vehicles in RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Legacy Building
… of drag, discussing with Shetina’s 2018 study on queer citation and Schottmiller’s 2017 study on camp referencing as queer memory in RuPaul’s Drag Race. My analysis of the portrayal of racializing stereotypes and appropriation of minority subcultures in RuPaul’s Drag Race discusses with hooks …
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A big family of bad bad bad girls! Critical study of knotted entanglements between body, kinship, time, memory and language among trans women who live in Istanbul
… but difficult to explain’ entanglements of body, kinship, time, and language by following curious and unexpected links between family and memory. I look at mutually formed mother and daughter relationships and matrilineal ties that are formed among trans women in Turkey to develop a trans …
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Are they family?: Queer parents and queer pasts in contemporary American culture
… to the past. My dissertation, Are They Family?: Queer Parents and Queer Pasts in Popular Culture, examines how American film, television, and literature between 2005 and 2016 construct relationships among LGBTQ people across recent history in generational and familial terms. These works queer the …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
… a new ideology of gender. Using feminist and queer theory to read George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Anne Brontë, I contend that this ideology challenges conventional Victorian conceptions of femininity and prevailing scholarly assessments of the figure of the fallen woman in the work of …