...Robert McRuer Duke University Press 2003 AS GOOD AS IT GETS Queer Theory and Critical Disability Robert McRuer In queer studies it is at this point a well-established critical practice to remark on heterosexuality’s supposed invisibility.1 As the heterosexual norm congealed during...

..., and Sexuality . Shildrick Margrit . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 . 215 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 queer theory disability studies materialism Book Review Queer Crip Sex and Critical Mattering Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial...

...Craig Womack “Suspicioning” examines the silences that surround issues of same-sex desire in and out of the poetry of Joy Harjo. Duke University Press 2010 (Muscogee Creek) Suspicioning Imagining a Debate between Those Who Get Confused, and Those Who Don’t, When They Read Critical...

...Elias Walker Vitulli This essay reviews three recently published books that stand at the intersection of queer/trans studies and critical prison studies. These books show the multiple and complex ways that queerness pervades the US prison system and the devastating effects of criminalization...

...Phillip Brian Harper Duke University Press 2000 GLQ 6.4-07.Harper 10/4/00 10:15 AM Page 641 The GLQ Archive THE EVIDENCE OF FELT INTUITION Minority Experience, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge...

... at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Books in Brief CRITICAL CLIMAXES Carla Freccero Porn Studies Edited by Linda Williams Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. vii + 516 pp. In the introduction to Porn Studies Linda Williams laments the excision of the “exuberant visuals” from...

... these works as offering both theoretical mobilizations of and departures from traditions of critical utopianism. Analyzed together, they explicitly challenge theories of queer antirelationality and implicitly insist — in the face of queer theory's ostensible death — that the future is, and still must...

... about history itself, at times turning to a kind of ficto-criticism to do so. For instance, she fabulates the well-known story of Gladys Bentley, the legendary bulldagger blues singer, as “Mistah Beauty, the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Woman, Select Scenes from a Film Never Cast by Oscar Micheaux...

...Rocío Pichon-Rivière Abstract This essay is part of a project historicizing vernacular theories from Latin America to create dialogues across geopolitical and epistemic borders. This article specifically advances a comparatist analysis of the critical phenomenologies of nudity, truth, and social...

... into the past,” Best assures (12). But he challenges the “forensic logic” (or “forensic imagination”) of melancholy historicism , Best's term for the critical disposition evident in the archival turn (13, 21). Melancholy historicism, he argues, “connects the collective's formation to thinking about the past...

.... Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 queer bonds queer sociality academic attachment cross-identification criticism References Amin Kadji . 2017 . Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Barad Karen...

... IN BY THE CRITIC Helen Hok-Sze­ Leung New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut B. Ruby Rich Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. xxx + 322 pp. There are many insightful books on New Queer Cinema (NQC) in print, but none comes close to offering so intimate a study as B. Ruby Rich’s sharply...

...Chris Straayer; Thomas Waugh Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Two Critics Speak Out As the second installment of our triptych of roundtables on queer film and video festivals worldwide, we offer here statements by eight...

... Halberstam New York: New York University Press, 2005. viii + 213 pp. There are few members of the queer and LGTBI community reading GLQ who will require a review of Judith Halberstam’s most recent book. Most will read this prolific theorist-critic-activist’s publications as they appear...

...: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986 . Román , David . “‘It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To!’: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Circulation of Camp in U.S. Theatre.” Theatre Journal 44 ( 1992 ): 305 -27. Román , David . “Performing All Our Lives: AIDS, Performance, Community.” Critical Theory...

... situates them on the common ground of a critical, interdisciplinary (queer) “humanities” methodology that continues to test its efficacy in accounting for ongoing processes of subjective formation and de-formation, both individual and collective, that insist on organizing themselves into and around...

... intrude into the cognitive registers where apparent rationality does not rule as much as imperialist disavowal and contradiction. In short, Cho's lobbed pussy shout-outs wash over her audience like a peristaltic wave. This essay draws out the value of a peristaltic feminism for a queer critical racial...

...D. A. Miller D. A. Miller's “Call for Papers” is an homage to Barbara Johnson on the occasion of a memorial service held for her in Berkeley. She was, for Miller, a “critic's critic”: in a posthumous response to her “Bringing Out D. A. Miller,” a review of his book Bringing Out Roland Barthes , he...

...Heather Love This essay pays tribute to the work of D. A. Miller, focusing in particular on the sociological dimensions of his criticism. Miller is often understood as a purely formalist critic; I argue that his formalism is in tension with a mapping of social and material realities, including...

...Colin Carman There is a present need in contemporary queer theory to join forces with ecological criticism, specifically with the burgeoning field of animal studies, to critically assess the controversial life and writings of self-proclaimed “eco-warrior” Timothy Treadwell (1957 – 2003...