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...Stephanie Clare This essay considers a form of relation that is neither sameness nor difference but correspondence. It does so by analyzing the palindromes in two films, John Greyson's Fig Trees and Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know . Within a palindrome, letters here...

... girls didn't understand the allure of holes. You were sometimes wrong. We know something about slipping in and out of cells, animate and still. Like Gretel I want to map my trip into the dense forest of you, dropping these words so I can get back out. But I've read her story (so many stories now...

... and thus make possible new ways of knowing. If antiblack, heteropatriarchial violence makes certain forms of thought impossible, then Jordan smashes “a hammer to his head” to open up other ways of knowing the present, past, and future. As she struggles to name the unspeakable violence of patriarchy, white...

...Mary Louise Adams In popular and professional discourses about effeminacy or sissyness, boys' feelings about sport and their actual athletic abilities have been represented both as symptoms of gender deviance and as targets for clinical intervention. The assumption has been that knowing something...

... and their attendant modes of reading—for example, in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading,” which compares rigid, knowing-in-advance interpretation with an affectively rich, temporally fluid hermeneutics. Reparative reading offers one way to understand Tribute to Freud , but H.D. can...

...H. A. Sedgwick This note summarizes what I know of the history of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay “The 1001 Seances.” I suggest that it was primarily as a poet herself that she was drawn to study and to write about the poetry of James Merrill, and I go on to suggest that her writing in this essay...

..., but there is also an awareness of wastage, of moments “intently and beautifully” improved, “then how quickly squandered.” Sedgwick suggests that Merrill's long poem is formally exciting because it is “so knowing, so inventive, and so trusting about that wastage.” Sedgwick is describing the poem itself when she...

...Carla Freccero This essay, originally delivered as a response to Leo Bersani's presentation “Father Knows Best” at UC Berkeley's “Queer Bonds” conference, provides a critical appraisal of Bersani's reading of Claire Denis's film Beau Travail , exploring both the film's neo- and postcolonial...

... in politics, indeed in political activism, and cannot be separated from its enactments. We exist in a relation of “queer bonds” with—and are obligated to—those “we” may never know or recognize. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Remarks on “Queer Bonds” Judith Butler The hour is late and I...

... of various approaches and genres? This conversation serves as a preface to an excerpt from Tinsley's work of historical fiction. The conversation takes up scholars' responses to the impossibility of knowing some of the particularities of historical experience and subjectivity, as Tinsley's contribution...

...Marisa Solomon This article shifts our attention elsewhere, to the places where living is predicated on knowing with, through, and sometimes as waste. Coming out of a larger project detailing the anti-Black geographies of “long-distance” waste management, the author argues that waste infrastructure...

... or easily left behind, for its taxonomies and ways of knowing continue to structure identitarian frameworks of gender and sexuality. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...

... of knowing.” Visual culture, art, and performance are all represented in the collected articles, and questions of the archive reappear throughout the double-issue, at once marking a particular discursive vein in queer theory (the “archival turn”) while pointing to the methodological problems of doing queer...

...Laura Doan If we are serious about producing knowledge of the past in all its complexity—that is, as something we think that we know already as well as pastness in all its radical strangeness—it is vital to grasp the epistemological consequences in conceptualizing practices in oppositional terms...

... to this, serena, listen to this. there’s a colored man riding a bus & he bumps up against a white sailor, of course, because you know how these buses full up. & six white sailors chase him off the bus, corner this one man by himself to beat him, & the independent says it’s his fault...

... of its charming kind that I know to have been concerned with a child. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children “We say, of course,” somebody exclaimed, “that two children give two turns! Also that we want to hear about them.” —Henry James...

... everything equally, and some things we do not like at all. That isn’t to say, by any means, that we always know what we like in advance, or that our desires aren’t more capa- cious than we often let ourselves understand. But it is to say that even-or even especially-where our desire is most deeply...

... being overly friendly with. You know, I’m not the bar type and I don’t like most people that hang around bars, ’cause it’s bad news when they hang around a bar a lot. They’re looking for something. . . . And I just am not that interested. I can meet people other ways rather than that. I...

... was available, and I found out that the bronze plaque makers were in Texas, right in San Antonio. I don’t know if you’ve ever been...