...Daniel Heath Justice; Bethany Schneider; Mark Rifkin Duke University Press 2010 Heaven and Earth From the Guest Editors One of the unexpected reminders of the continued anxiety elicited by queer bod- ies emerged in the final stages of preparing this manuscript for publication when...

...Dana Luciano Duke University Press 2007 Coming Around Again The Queer Momentum of Far from Heaven Dana Luciano In a key scene from Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven (2002), Cathy Whitaker, an affluent white housewife and the film’s protagonist, arrives, slightly late, at a modern art...

... crusader archive; take, for example, the recent representation of the medieval Crusades in Kingdom of Heaven (dir. Ridley Scott, USA; 2005). Even though this film was widely panned as “a tower of politically correct jello” or, more darkly, as “Osama ben Laden’s version of history...

... into the highest heaven. The emphasis on power differentials, corporeal transformations, choreography, and metaphors of sight and blindness, so characteristic of the Paradiso text, cannot fail to call to mind the pleasure and pain of incorporation/joining and dismemberment/loss of self...

... always been platonic & if you ever believed pure friendship could be so exalted.” Lister replies: “I cannot help thinking that surely it was not platonic. Heaven forgive me, but I look within myself & doubt. I feel the infirmity of our nature & hesitate to pronounce...

... Disabled Talent, Robert DeFelice’s Crippled, Queer, and Legally Blond(e), Julia Trahan’s Nickels from Heaven, and Terry Galloway’s Out All Night and Lost My Shoes—experiment with the cultural meanings of crip and queer in theory, practice, and representation; GLQ 9:1–2 pp. 25–56 Copyright © 2003...

... GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES The image or fragment by Gupta used to illustrate his entry in the program and to adorn its cover was shot in the London nightclub Heaven. The gay superclub was launched in 1979 and swiftly became an enormous hit. Gupta s photograph (fig. 1) provides...

... from gay critics who, in his view, bring a realist aesthetic inappropriately to bear on Haynes’s self-reflexive postmodernism. But especially after Far from Heaven (2002) — a film DeAngelis does not mention — the question of whether contem- porary gay filmmaking queers the mainstream or whether...

... mixes the nectar and tends to the cups of Jove.” The love that Orpheus taught the Greeks transforms even the king of gods. It also remains a perpetual affront to women and to marriage, even the marriage of the queen of heaven. Perhaps the oddest things about this story...

... published in the periodicals Animation Journal, Canadian Art, and Cinema Scope and the anthology The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows (2007). Carolyn Dinshaw is professor of English and social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is taking her time on a book about queer...

... Reygadas’s Battle in Heaven (Mexico; 2005). When I asked one clerk to post a hold on Rick Castro and Bruce La Bruce’s Hustler White (USA; 1996), explaining that I needed to see this perpetually rented DVD as background for an academic paper, he palpably resisted the urge to ask...

... their virginity preserved so that they may occupy in heaven the special place reserved for virgins, while Latin texts tell of women who mutilated themselves in order to make themselves unattractive enough to avoid rape (Schulenberg 44-60). But this text is unique in vernacular hagiography...

... spirit, who do not need my grief, rejoice in the starry cir- cuit of the heavens and the fire of pure ether whence you sprang. But if, released from cares as you are, and no longer mortal, you should look back with pity on the labors which you yourself once suffered...

... autobiographical novel I Am a Martini- can Woman (1948) (chapter 4); an analysis of Cliff’s novel No Telephone to Heaven (1987) (chapter 5); and a parsing of Canada-­based Trinidadian writer and activist Dionne Brand’s poetry volume No Language Is Neutral (1990) (chapter 6). These readings are complemented...

... autobiographical novel I Am a Martini- can Woman (1948) (chapter 4); an analysis of Cliff’s novel No Telephone to Heaven (1987) (chapter 5); and a parsing of Canada-­based Trinidadian writer and activist Dionne Brand’s poetry volume No Language Is Neutral (1990) (chapter 6). These readings are complemented...

... autobiographical novel I Am a Martini- can Woman (1948) (chapter 4); an analysis of Cliff’s novel No Telephone to Heaven (1987) (chapter 5); and a parsing of Canada-­based Trinidadian writer and activist Dionne Brand’s poetry volume No Language Is Neutral (1990) (chapter 6). These readings are complemented...

... autobiographical novel I Am a Martini- can Woman (1948) (chapter 4); an analysis of Cliff’s novel No Telephone to Heaven (1987) (chapter 5); and a parsing of Canada-­based Trinidadian writer and activist Dionne Brand’s poetry volume No Language Is Neutral (1990) (chapter 6). These readings are complemented...

... autobiographical novel I Am a Martini- can Woman (1948) (chapter 4); an analysis of Cliff’s novel No Telephone to Heaven (1987) (chapter 5); and a parsing of Canada-­based Trinidadian writer and activist Dionne Brand’s poetry volume No Language Is Neutral (1990) (chapter 6). These readings are complemented...

.... It happened in a course that I created called Black Lesbian Lives when I first landed my tenure- track position. I was so hyped to be able to teach a class from my embodied and ideological centers. The semester was well underway, and everything was going great. The students were engaged, and I was in heaven...

... OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES extended scene from book 3 of the Faerie Queene, we are introduced to a place in which all souls enter after death and wait to be reborn again. But it is not heaven: instead, it is a garden at whose center are Venus and the perpetually dying...