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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"queer culture"”.
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Queering Up for Battle
… art to serve as a catalyst for the contemporary Queer rights movement. Drawing on the works of Remy Jungerman, LJ Roberts, michá cardenas, and Joar Nango, alongside the insights of Queer theorists Lisa Duggan and José Esteban Muñoz, I analyze my own artwork and the way I remix elements of both …
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Queer American expatriate writers in France and the birth of the gay modernist subject
… critical history of forgotten or neglected queer American writers in the international expatriate community in France who used their time in the French mainland and colonies to construct early narratives of gay identity. This project argues that French literature and art, which had already …
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Lt. Claggett Wilson, queer masculinity, and the formation of American modernism /
… scenes and his familiarity with contemporaneous queer culture. This dissertation culls the archives to reconstruct the life of this now-forgotten artist, calling attention to his performative stance as an ideal soldier and aesthete. Additionally, this dissertation provides a framework for …
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Are We Killing the Boys Harshly? The Consumption of the Male Gaze in Queer Pages
… a social-text analysis of advertising images in queer publications which represent the new millennium up until 2008 in order to explore gaze theory in a queer context by answering the research question, “How have queer men represented themselves to themselves in the new millennium through the …
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The comradeship of the "Happy Few": Henry James, Edith Wharton, and the pederastic tradition
… reevaluation of Henry James in terms of queer theory has created a need to reexamine James' influence on Edith Wharton and her works. In this dissertation, I explore how James introduced Wharton to a circle of friends (the "Happy Few"), a group of queer men-of-letters who provided the …
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A Queer Genealogy of "Havruta": Study Partnership as Intimate Relationship Between Men in Jewish Literature
… This dissertation argues that the trope of queer havruta, which refers to literary images of traditional Jewish study pairs that can be read as queer through a modern lens, has established its place in the canon of queer romance and contributed to the shaping of Jewish queer culture. …
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Hang on to yourself: Bowie, Burke, and the rhetoric of stage persona
… like Japanese kabuki theater, pop art, and queer culture. By performing as the androgynous Ziggy Stardust both on and off stage, Bowie forced audiences to reassess their assumptions about identity and sexuality and challenged the pervasiveness of the white, heterosexual male perspective in …
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Making “Quare” Spaces: Re-membering Childhood as a Queer Practice of Indigenous African Place-making
Queers of colour are in real and constant danger as they are not seen to belong neatly to either Western queer culture (due to their blackness) or African culture (due to their queerness). This discursive violence legitimizes actual violence on black queer bodies. This research project uses …
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A grounded theory analysis of how the identities (refugee and sexuality) of sexual orientation and gender identity minoritised refugees are influenced by the migration process in the UK
… policies, the healthcare system, and the queer culture, render the SOGI refugee experience in the UK unique and worthy of research. Methodology: This study employs a qualitative method since this topic has not been sufficiently explored or developed. Constructivist grounded theory (CGT) …
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“Mother has arrived!” : History, Race, and Family as Vehicles in RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Legacy Building
… references to and appropriation of minority subcultures; employment and perpetuating of racializing stereotypes; and use of different types of family discourse. I focused on 2014’s RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 as a case study. I conducted several rounds of close reading and watching of the …