... scholarly rubrics. An abbreviated list might include the historicizing of sexual identities and the concomitant untangling of genealogies of identification and desire, the critical engagements with and swearings off of psychoanalytic mod- els of subjectivity, and the increasingly fine-tuned analyses...

... of heterosexuality has less to do with the need or desire to repudiate the Other [than] with an attempt to expand the dis- course of the heterosexual Other to include a black gay subjectivity” (77). John- son has an excellent ear. Like a great analyst, he listens to the speech of his sub...

...Stephanie Youngblood This article takes up the intersection of AIDS testimony, lyric poetry, and gay male sexuality in Frank Bidart's poetry. Using Douglas Crimp's discussion of the politics of AIDS aesthetics as a starting point, I focus on Bidart's 1997 collection of poems, Desire, to consider...

... of the communicative practices discussed are similar to secret “gay” languages in other contexts, but talk about spirits, and about Popobawa in particular, offers a unique way for transgressive men to respect local conversational norms while discreetly revealing their own identities and desires. © 2015 by Duke...

..., AND ECONOMIES OF DESIRE Amber Jamilla Musser A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography Mireille Miller-­Young Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. xxi + 368 pp. Mireille Miller-­Young uses pornography as a case study for illustrating strate...

.... Waddell and Louder. Trans. Franklin Phillip. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1993 . 348 –58. INTELLECTUAL DESIRE In1992 I was invited to present one of two keynote addresses at La Ville en Rose: Le premier colloque QuCbCcois d’Ctudes lesbiennes et gaies-the First Quebec Lesbian and Gay...

...Brian James Baer Duke University Press 2002 RUSSIAN GAYS/WESTERN GAZE Mapping (Homo)Sexual Desire in Post-Soviet Russia Brian James Baer When the first English edition of Ivan Bloch’s Sexual Life in England, Past and Present appeared in 1938, the publisher seemed to feel obliged...

...Tze-lan D. Sang The University of Chicago 2002 AT THE JUNCTURE OF CENSURE AND MASS VOYEURISM Narratives of Female Homoerotic Desire in Post-Mao China Tze-lan D. Sang In the years immediately following Mao Zedong’s death, fiction writers in the People’s Republic of China consistently...

...Annette Schlichter Duke University Press 2004 QUEER AT LAST? Straight Intellectuals and the Desire for Transgression Annette Schlichter The crucial, empowering incoherence at the core of heterosexuality and its definition never becomes visible because heterosexuality itself is never...

...William Burgwinkle Duke University Press 2004 “THE FORM OF OUR DESIRE” Arnaut Daniel and the Homoerotic Subject in Dante’s Commedia William Burgwinkle Fame . . . without it man wastes his life away, leaving such traces of what he was on earth as smoke in the wind and foam upon...

... at the University at Albany, SUNY. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2009-026 Books in Brief 315 “Not Simple Homophobia”: African Same-Sex Desires, Politics, and the Limit of Homosexual Rights Rinaldo Walcott African Intimacies: Race...

...Stephen Valocchi The scholarship on gay male social history identifies a shift that supposedly takes place in the landscape of same-sex desire, practice, subjectivities, and associations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. According to this historiography, these landscapes were...

... love affair, I suggest that it provides an important counternarrative to the mainstream gay movement's celebration of well-adjusted, happy homosexuals. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The Limits of Desire On the Downlow and Queer Chicago Film Bill Johnson González Latin@/Queer...

...Chris Waters Duke University Press 2007 Book Review Distance and Desire in the New British Queer History Chris Waters Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the Nineteenth Century H. G. Cocks London: I. B. Tauris, 2003. x + 251 pp. London and the Culture of Homosexuality...

...Morris B. Kaplan Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 WHO’S AFRAID OF JOHN SAUL? Urban Culture and the Politics of Desire in Late Victorian London Morris B. Kaplan London in the nineteenth century is a crucial site for the emergence of an ethos of individuality...

...Lisa Rofel Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 QUALITIES OF DESIRE Imagining Gay Identities in China Lisa Rofel At first blush, it appears to be a foregone conclusion that a global convergence of people now embraces a gay identity. Perhaps Michael...

...Katherine Binhammer Duke University Press 2003 THE “SINGULAR PROPENSITY” OF SENSIBILITY’S EXTREMITIES Female Same-Sex Desire and the Eroticization of Pain in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Culture Katherine Binhammer The challenges of anachronism in writing pre-twentieth-century...

.... Hocquenghem , Guy . Homosexual Desire . Trans. Daniella Dangoor. London: Allison and Busby, 1978 . Hofstadter , Richard . The Paranoid Style in American Politics . 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1965 . Jameson , Fredric . Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, The Modernist as Fascist . Berkeley...

...Sue-Ellen Case Copyright © 1993 by Gordon and Breach Science Publishers SA 1993 The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader . Joan Nestle. Boston: Alyson, 1992 ...

... of the protagonist's desire after its unmaking by the medical record. “Rather than using desire explicitly to negotiate institutional control and injury,” he writes, “Kay protects it to defy institutional power. The novel . . . works through the logic of refusal in support of the nonnormative subject.” And he...