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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Queer reading"”.
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The postcolonial lesbian text: readings of four novels by Renée
… text?” Part One addresses the possibility of the reading postcolonial lesbian text in four novels by Renée. It begins with an overview of humanist and poststructuralist reading and writing strategies which are contested within a contemporary Western lesbian literary field. At an intersection of …
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Looking for Right Now: Cruising in Gay New York
… a concern with looking in the work of three queer New York writers: Walt Whitman, Frank O’Hara and David Wojnarowicz. Through this triptych formation I offer an account of the look as an optical instrument of desire that is intimately linked with visual culture. I begin with Walter Benjamin’s …
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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
… 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 continues to the present queer reading. Through a …
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Self(ie)-Care and Mental Health
… the excluded position of the ‘mad’. Through a queer reading of narcissism and analysis of the combined embodied gestures in the selfie – commanding the viewer to both “look at me showing you me” and “look at me looking at me” - this paper argues that the image provides the possibility of …
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How Might Jesus’ Relationship with the Beloved Disciple Affirm LGBTQ+ Christians in the Twenty-First Century?
… the Beloved Disciple on later Christian culture. Queer Theory challenges binary preconceptions and encourages the displacement of ‘traditional’ perspectives so that a reading can be undertaken which avoids non-affirming bias. Following this inter-disciplinary analysis, a gay-affirming ‘queer’ …
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Queer identity in performance in Northern Ireland
This thesis investigates queer identity in performance in Northern Ireland, focusing on its socioculturally disruptive agency. Queer theory provides a poststructuralist paradigm that unsettles any binary structures in the analysis of gender and sexuality in social, historical and cultural studies. …
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Motherhood, Female Ageing and Samuel Beckett
… investigating the possibility of an alternative queer reading, which may go some way to explaining the caustic treatment of women in Beckett’s early fiction. Gender and sexuality are not niche critical concerns in Beckett Studies, but central to Beckett’s aesthetics. Chapter Two focuses on how …
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Utopia, Deseo Y Consumismo: Interpretaciones De Lo Queer En La Literature Y El Cine Postfranquistas
… reclaiming the socio-political presence of the queer subject, as well as a unique manner of re-reading contemporary Peninsular culture. Thus, I propose a queer reading, based on the work of Judith Butler, that centers on the tensions between invisibility and visibility of female desire. The …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
This thesis identifies strategies of queer/irony in the writings of Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the concept. The thesis establishes an approach to the multifaceted concept of irony and …
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Queering Religions Schooling: Teaching, Values, Rituals
This thesis offers a queer reading of religious schooling that resists setting religion and queerness inevitably in opposition to one another. Jewish, Christian, and Muslim perspectives often rely on an identitarian account of religious schooling: the religious school exists to sustain a particular …
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Modern myth in performance: claiming identity through a reading of fantasy withcraft
… images of folkloric witches. My alternative reading shows how a subgroup can appropriate popular images for their own identity formation. I will analyze how signs, themes, and narrative tropes that otherwise seem ancillary or even anti-witch become highlighted and privileged, creating a …
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Anthropophagic Queer: A Study on Abjected Bodies and Brazilian Queer Theory
… literature and film in order to discuss queer theory and its ability to resonate with, and bring to light, specifically Brazilian concerns. The main argument of this dissertation is that, on one hand, such ideas and theories may change local perspectives; and that, on the other, they are …
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Making a Victim: How White Slavery Discourse Shapes the UK’s Anti-trafficking Strategy
… question guiding this dissertation is, ‘How can queer methodology help to understand the conceptualisation of modern slavery in the UK?’ To answer this question, I begin with present-day UK modern slavery policy and investigate themes of ideal victimhood that have persisted within contemporary …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
… out the ghosts of modern Ireland, I turn to queer ways of reading, paying attention to the marginal and the disavowed. This new reading queers the archive of twentieth-century Ireland, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernity and modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the …
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"Sometimes You'Ll Feel Like An Outcast": Using Superman To Interrogate The Closet
… good. A number of sources repeatedly remind queer-identified individuals, for example, that coming out of the closet results in crucial visibility that, among other things, can help lead to political advances for the GLBTQ community. Yet, the call to make the invisible visible also valorizes …
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The curriculum of coming out: queer pedagogies, literacies, and rhetorics in LGBTQ lives
… of rhetorical education, or what I call the “queer extracurriculum.” My dissertation traces the intricate connections between the processes, materials, and sites by which LGBTQ people develop materially consequential literacy and rhetorical practices through two qualitative case studies. In …