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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Queer temporality"”.
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Lovecraftian Queerness: Weird and Queer Temporalities in <em>Lovecraft Country</em> and <em>Detransition, Baby</em>
… H. P. Lovecraft’s work through the lens of queer temporality, I offer a queer perspective on Lovecraft, reading the monstrous outside in his work as a queer figure and casting the temporal conflict common to Lovecraftian horror as a conflict between dominant time and outside time. I argue …
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Intimate Exegesis: Reading and Feeling in Early Modern Devotional Literature
… patristic theology together with feminist and queer theory to address how Robert Southwell, Anne Lock, Aemilia Lanyer, and Katherine Philips develop sophisticated interpretive practices out of mourning, recalcitrance, despair, nostalgia, and failure, all grounded in the peculiar passions of …
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Fatty Fatty Two-by-Four—Can’t Get Through the Dressing Room Door?: An Examination of Excess as Queer Failure
… failures. In this dissertation, I am examining queer failure in multiple contexts including body size, as well as religion to create a corpulent critique. I do this by examining the lineage of queer failure as well as queer temporality as it is linked to failure (Edelman; Muñoz; Halberstam; …
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Between Worlds, Between Times: Thinking with Trans Narratives at the Limits of Ontology and Temporality
… theoretical notions of ontological pluralism and queer temporality against the pervasive cultural norm of cis-normativity and the dominant temporal logic of chrono-normativity. First, I critique the blatantly transphobic and fallacious rhetoric of Kathleen Stock, the face of the “gender critical” …
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Queer aesthetics of empathy and gothicness in contemporary sculpture
… Prefigured by the past, such referents arouse a queer temporality. Methodologically aligned with Freeman’s notion of temporal drag, through the theories of Muñoz, Dinshaw, and Halberstam, empathy and the Gothic are found to inhabit a realm of queer potentiality, which I locate within awkward …
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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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Fantasies of citizenship: adolescence and temporality in young adult literature
… field of children's and YA literature through queer and feminist theory, I analyze how the adolescent's proximity to, but inability to fully inhabit, normative adulthood disrupts totalizing narratives of development and citizenship. Queer theory has recently attended to the question of …
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Spectral futurity: The performative afterlives of mourning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Queer, Cannibal, Brazilian: The Temporal Politics of Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Production
The dissertation intervenes in queer and Brazilian studies by reframing sexual narratives of Brazil’s modern subject formation through contemporary queer cultural productions. It argues that the colonial employment of temporal terms such as origin, progress, development, and copy established …