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... discord, irony, and sub version : can "c o m ra d e s " be queer? T o g e th e r w ith a local ga y frie n d , I w e n t to a p u b lic scre e n in g o f th e p ro g ra m at a ga y bar. T h e ba r d o e s n o t have a C hinese nam e. A s its E ng lish n a m e "th e B o a t" su g g e sts, th e ba r...

... erican gay presence. Yes, there are o nly brief scenes, incidents, and descriptive passages where we can discern what might be called "traces of queerness"; and, yes, practically all the characters are Euro-Americans. But w h a t we talk about when we talk about a gay attendance in left-wing literature o...

... and respect to m y beloved Queer M inority, w hose re-discovery and re-invention has enriched and rewarded the political 2nd half of my life, I feel at last that - f o r t h e very first tim e - e v e r - l am enabled to c o m e h o m e . Thank y o u a ll for h a v in g m a d e th is im p o s s i b l e - p o...

...Michael G. Cronin Rosemary Hennessy , Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organising on the Mexican Frontera ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 ). James Penney , After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics ( London : Pluto Press...

...Eric H. Newman Abstract This essay argues that the queer romances at the margins of Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille operate as sites of possibility for a happy, egalitarian social relation that is longed for but not otherwise accessible in the novel. The essay contends that this novel, read...

... and short fiction. As astute as much of the critical work is, none of it addresses the cornerstone of Kiernan’s fiction: trauma. This essay considers Kiernan’s novel The Red Tree as a queer American gothic novel dealing with trauma and its lingering effects on its witnesses. Through its complex, fragmentary...

... them "non-canonical."They can best be described as "deuterocanonical" (a term that I w ill discuss in the next section). In term s of history, theology, internal structuring, and deuterocanonical status, each of these documents, w hile used to regulate queerness, nonetheless open up a space...

... in community? This article argues that reading John of the Cross’s Cántico espiritual in the context of the Carmelite reform not only destabilizes Goytisolo’s notion of radical mysticism but also makes imaginable a loving critique that offers the politics of queerness and religious difference an alternative...

... that, in matters o f what we affectionately call "the heart" o f our profession, the im pact o f cultural theory still remains marginal and negligible. Particularly, I'm interested in w hat recent race theory (specifically the idea of intersectionality) and queer theory (specifically the idea of heteronorm ativity...

... a t polar bears exist, w hy bother saving them? Forget tryin g to prove th a t global w arm ing exists. We c a n 't even prove polar bears exist if we cleave to the m etaphysics of presence. Enter queer th e o ry . Q ueer th e o ry 's p o w e rfu l in s ig h t is th a t a t le a st one th in g g e n...

... to the highly visible political spaces of AIDS/HIV activism, queer geography has mapped the way for exciting and generative scholarship in queer studies. The field, though, has been lim ited not only by its focus on gay male experience, but also, ironically, by its virtually-exclusive focus on sexual experience...

...Eileen Barrett W hose Q ueer Lo n d o n ? E ileen B a r r e tt IIn Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 19T8-W57, Matt Houlbrook combs the archives o f the Public Record Office, the Central Criminal Court, the M etropolitan Police, and the Public M orality Council, among...

...: the American Express and the queer underground. Both are characterized by a peculiar tem porality or speed. For Baldwin, those onboard the American Express are im m o ­ bilized by their collective insistence on "innocence" as they race past the atrocities o f the nation's history. The dw ellers of the queer...

..., potential that never runs out. No matter how many stories, how many writers, there's always more space. Slash as space, space as both yearning void and infinite potential. (Julad 2003) T o date, work on women, queerness, and online com m unities has m ainly focused on lesbian and queer-identified women's...

..." of urban geography, the urinals, shady parks, and bathhouses where men solicited working-class men or soldiers for quick, often anonymous sex. Throughout, Houlbrook repeatedly demonstrates how the queer body was defined as a public body, subject to policing in public and private. He con­ cludes...

...Marc Stein QUEER LONDON, M ET H O D ACTING, a n d Time T r a v e l Marc S tein Matt Houlbrook begins his wonderful new book by reporting that a friend recently told him that he practices "the historian's equivalent o f method acting." Returning to the joke, he concludes his acknowledgments...

...Jane Garrity Mappin g Q u eer S pace J a n e G arrity vivid ly remember one of my first encounters w ith literary queer space when, as a grad­ uate student at Berkeley in the late eighties, I was reading Virginia W oolfs A Room of One's Own w ith in the context o f a fem inist theory class...

... that it inflects modern black and queer experience and representation. Shame and negative affect more generally have been central to a great deal o f recent w ork in queer and ethnic studies. Still, Stockton does not assume that shame is o f interest; she instead incites her reader through a series of challenging...

... focus onto the subject of race. Race serves here to screen (that is, to project as w ell as to conceal) the queer contours of the POOL enterprise. English Language N otes 45.2 Fall / Winter 2007 34 E n g l is h La n g u a g e n o t e s 4 5 .2 Fa l l / Win t e r 2 0 0 7 There is no denying...

...Daniel Ussishkin H o u l b r o o k s Q u e e r H is t o r y D AN IEL USSISHKIN It is one of the many m erits of Matt Houlbrook's m agnificently-researched and beautifully-w ritten Queer London that the subject o f this book is far from self evident. It is neither "o ur history," nor...