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GLQ (2012) 18 (2-3): 361–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Matt Richardson Using Jackie Kay's novel Trumpet , this essay looks at the “social death” of black queerness, a positionality situated outside the nation and outside blackness, as a site from which to explore what it would mean for black men to embrace the feminine within themselves. Although...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (2-3): 419–421.
Published: 01 June 2012
... looking, preco-
cious, and paradigm shifting.
Notes
1. See Chou Wah-shan, Houshimim tognzhi (The Postcolonial Tongzhi) (Hong Kong:
Hong Kong tongzhi yanjiushe, 1997).
2. See Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2004); Judith...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 597–614.
Published: 01 October 2012
... as both tolerant and limiting of queer desires, as well as resistant of the rumors of a broader cultural death. One of the case studies includes, to use Helen Hok-Sze Leung's term, “do-it-yourself” queer cultural projects that focus on reaching out to LGBT communities rather than to a wider mainstream...
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GLQ (1999) 5 (3): 361–411.
Published: 01 June 1999
...Peter A. Jackson Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 AN AMERICAN DEATH
IN BANGKOK
The Murder of Darrell Berrigan and the Hybrid Origins
of Gay Identity in 1960s Thailand
Peter A. Jackson
Bangkok today is home to some of the largest and most visible gay and trans-
gender...
Journal Article
GLQ (2018) 24 (1): 9–12.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Thelathia “Nikki” Young Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Butler Judith . 2004 . Undoing Gender . New York : Routledge . Edelman Lee . 2004 . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Koch-Rein...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Oliver Coates Drone warfare is only the most prominent of a series of social and technological developments leading to remote and abstracted forms of injury and death. In response to Maya Mikdashi and Jasbir K. Puar’s connecting of queer theory with “permanent war” in “Queer Theory and Permanent...
Journal Article
GLQ (2019) 25 (2): 273–296.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Bobby Benedicto Drawing on the writings of Georges Bataille and Leo Bersani, this essay reexamines the long-held association of homosexuality with a radical erotics of death from the vantage of queer of color critique. While notions of suicidal ecstasy, self-shattering, and masochistic jouissance...
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GLQ (1994) 1 (2): 143–161.
Published: 01 April 1994
..., Leon S.. New York: Columbia, 1982 . Kristeva , Julia . “Within the Microcosm of ‘The Talking Cure.'” Trans. Gora, Thomas and Waller, Margaret. Interpreting Lacan . Ed. Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan. New Haven: Yale UP, 1983 . 33 -48. Laplanche , Jean . Life and Death...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 427–451.
Published: 01 October 2023
...” and “highly constructed,” reflecting a well-known fact among refugees and asylees: while one may have compelling, pressing, or life-and-death situations driving migration patterns, the story constructed for the host nation must follow a rigid formula that ultimately maintains its global narrative as a safe...
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GLQ (2021) 27 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 June 2021
... essays and poetry up until his eventual death in 1990 from AIDS complications. Writing defiantly as a queer, a feminist, a Puerto Rican, and a sidoso , he produced work that invites death and desire to commingle through a figuration of dust, as a scattered substance that covers skin, coats translation...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (3): 341–379.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Michael Lucey This article proposes a contextualization of Marguerite Duras's 1983 book, The Malady of Death , along with some of her other writings and statements from around that time. These writings register her long-term intimate relationship with a much younger gay man whom she called Yann...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (2-3): 267–289.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... The essay focuses on three primary structures—death and disease (“lesbian bed death”), “the urge to merge,” and “possession”—in authors ranging from Dickens and Swinburne to Patricia Highsmith and Elizabeth Bishop to articulate the ethics of the lesbian merge as well as its potential dangers and, moreover...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (2-3): 265–286.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., inanimate objects, and things in between can be queered and racialized without human bodies present, quite beyond questions of personification. Theorizing this animacy offers an alternative, or a complement, to existing biopolitical and recent queer-theoretical debates about life and death, while the idea...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 543–573.
Published: 01 October 2011
..., look to make a popular intervention into contemporary spirituality, as well as, by implication, notions of the family, marriage, and sexuality. But whereas in Gibson's film the Passion is all divine death drive—all thanatos—Brown's novel reconceives Jesus's Passion in terms of eros, though on the most...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (3): 279–300.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Julian Gill-Peterson This essay considers the mutation of the temporality of HIV/AIDS in the United States from epidemic time to endemic time — the biopolitical distribution of life and death capacities across populations — as a critical noncoincidence of the present with itself. That the present...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (3): 441–468.
Published: 01 June 2009
... kinship breaks down: illness and death, migrant experience, and family secrets. Through a doubled formal and thematic emphasis on fragmentation, discontinuity, and affective ambivalence, these extraordinary works help us understand kinship otherwise, or queerly. Duke University Press 2009 Queer...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 93–103.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Janice Gould This personal essay discusses the life and death of the author's father, who late in life changed genders to become a “trans-woman.” The essay deals with the author's conflicted feelings about this transformation. Duke University Press 2010 (Concow) My Father,
Cynthia...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 11–15.
Published: 01 January 2019
... with Sedgwick that Sedgwick performs with James in an attempt to deal with her death during the writing of his dissertation. In doing so, the author invites readers to reflect on the near-identifications at work in their own reading and writing practices. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Eve...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (3): 431–455.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Corey McEleney Since its publication in 2004, Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive has sparked some of the most heated debates in literary and cultural studies. Yet most engagements with Edelman’s text—whether positive, negative, or neutral—tend to resort to paraphrasing...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (3): 457–482.
Published: 01 June 2019
... art of lying, in order to imagine new forms of travesti survival, and less cruel ways of travesti death. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 travesti dreams Peru queer art of lying References Abu-Lughod Lila . 1986 . Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin...
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