...Anna Poletti This essay reconsiders the importance of performativity to scholarship on life writing by exploring the potential of Eve Sedgwick's concept of the periper-formative utterance for reading queer life narratives. Taking the documentary Tarnation (2003) as an example, I argue that a range...

...Karen Jacobs Annie Leibovitz's postmortem photograph of Susan Sontag in A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 publicizes its subject in the same visual space that protects its privacy, writing over its contemporaneity with a series of more legible nineteenth-century and modernist visual codes, just...

... this by way of an encounter with the writings of Marxist-feminist poet Karen Brodine. The labor relations that surround the typesetting computer are part and parcel of the revolutionary working-class and queer socialist feminism that Brodine elaborates across her writing and that she worked for tirelessly...

... writing, has been the translation of autobiography.) 2 If Ramos Otero is translating his life through aesthetic means, what does this translation process do to our notion of the referential status of Ramos Otero's life? His queer translations of autobiography turn the conventional wisdom...

...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...

... not only the conditions of modern gay urban life but also social class in the postwar United States. Following biographical traces throughout his writing, I place him in relation to the tradition of the “scholarship boy” and suggest that secrecy and shame in his work are indexed not only to sexual but also...

...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...

... to evolutionary theory, life begins as less sexually differentiated, and as a species evolves, so do two distinct sexes: male and female. As Siobhan Somerville ( 2000 : 29) writes: “One of the basic assumptions within the Darwinian model was the belief that, as organisms evolved through a process of natural...

... essays appear in American Quarterly and Cultural Critique. Coedited special issues of Biography include “Life in Occupied Palestine” and, with Laura Lyons, “Personal Effects: The Testimonial Uses of Life Writing.” Laura E. Lyons is professor of English and department chair at the University...

...- easy- targets. Debs, Eugene V. 1908. How I Became a Socialist. In Debs: His Life Writings and Speeches, 79 84. Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason. Delany, Samuel R. 1999. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. New York: New York University Press. Duggan, Lisa. 2003. The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism...

... with illness, disability, and disfigurement within the text itself, 18 to push against the other major topic for researchers interested in Rousseau's paranoia: his life-long urinary tract infections. This method would again resonate with pre-Rousseau life-writing as described by Adam Smyth ( 2016 : 2–3...

... sources in a cultural studies vein (life writing, fashion magazines, conduct books, periodicals, popular novels, and other cultural artifacts, such as dolls) while also examining nineteenth-century anthropology and law. Last but not least, it engages some of the period’s canonical fiction...

... on the Victorian era. For its evidence, the book draws on popular sources in a cultural studies vein (life writing, fashion magazines, conduct books, periodicals, popular novels, and other cultural artifacts, such as dolls) while also examining nineteenth-century anthropology and law. Last but not least...

... , edited by Kaufman Janet E. and Herzog Anne F. , xxxiii – xli . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press . Keenaghan Eric . 2013 . “ Biocracy : Reading Poetic Politics through the Traces of Muriel Rukeyser's Life-Writing .” Journal of Narrative Theory 43 , no. 3...

... of mortality, Sedgwick’s ethics of intersubjec- tivity offers one way to expand queer theory’s affective modalities to include a conception of durable and impersonal relations of “holding” that extend beyond any one individual life. Writing Feeling without a First Person “What kind of a narrative...

... can only be nostalgic if you didn’t live it. . . . Those of us who had the misfortune to live that life until the 1970s don’t feel nostalgic about it.”3 Weeks’s comment calls attention to how Houlbrook’s work disrupts a par- ticular tradition in the writing of gay and lesbian history — just...

... meetings happen; this was how he maintained a lively queer life. Writing to those whom one had just met did not always yield a further meeting, but Howe did it often enough that some of those connections panned out. The same year (and perhaps stemming from the same trip where Howe had met Gould...

.../CGE_CouncilforGlobalEquality.pdf . Feldman Allen . 2004 . “Memory Theaters, Virtual Witnessing, and the Trauma-Aesthetic.” Biography 27 , no. 1 : 163 – 202 . Franklin Cynthia Lyons Laura E. . 2008 . “Grief to Grievance: Ethics and Politics in the Testimony of Anti-War Mothers.” Life Writing 5...

... is “Another world is possible.”24 Clearly, even if the spaces that have nurtured this other world are under attack, queers and crips have known of its existence for some time. “If there is such a thing as a gay way of life,” writes Michael Warner, “it consists in . . . a welter of intimacies outside...

... of a Liberal Education for Africans . Cambridge, MA : John Wilson and Son . Blyden Edward Wilmot . ( 1908 ) 1994 . African Life and Customs . Baltimore, MD : Black Classic’s Press . Burton Jonathan . 2013 . “ ‘A Most Wily Bird’: Leo Africanus, Othello, and the Trafficking in Difference...