... they address have stopped caring. The article describes perverse homogenization processes as “homotribalism,” arguing that they provide an erotic basis for ethnonationalism. It then provides a detailed reading of Call Me by Your Name (2017), claiming that its striking contemporary relevance during the first...

..., and possession demonstrates the ongoing impact of the history of colonialism in North America. Duke University Press 2010 “And through its naming became owner” Translation in James Thomas Stevens’s Tokinish Sarah Dowling In the introduction to his collection of poems Combing the Snakes from His...

... that the new national heroes trope functions ideologically to praise, cultivate, and broker flexible Filipino labor while seeking to quell a host of moral anxieties about gender, sexuality, and globalization. I argue that the naming of outsourced laborers as new national heroes extends the logic of the labor...

... subjectivity. The third section considers an example of the intersection of queer family romance and the collection of visual culture, namely, the collection of paintings, objets d'art, and other items of visual and material culture gathered and exhibited by William Beckford at Fonthill Abbey from about 1795...

...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick This essay, written in 1976–77, is concerned primarily with James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim,” which was published in 1976. The poem tells of many nights spent by Merrill and his partner, David Jackson, in communication with a spirit named Ephraim, whose messages...

... of this fantasy (its relegation to the “origins” of kinship and exchange) produces the effect of concealing the repeated return of the same in late capitalism. Commodity fetishism is the name of one of the most explicit figural convergences of psychoanalysis and Marxism, and its critical genealogy continues...

... that “there is not one but many silences,” queer theory continues to read celibacy as the sign of another practice: homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name” or the “impossibility” of lesbian sex. Mapping celibacy across sexuality studies' major conceptual grids (homo/hetero, acts/identities, fantasy...

... literature to the present: Audre Lorde’s biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), Craig Womack’s (Muscogee-Creek and Cherokee) novel Drowning in Fire (2001), and Janet Mock’s memoir Redefining Realness (2014). Although these narratives imagine and claim other cultural histories and frames...