...Corinne E. Blackmer Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 ETHNOPORN, LESBIAN CHILDHOOD, AND NATIVE MATERNAL CULTURE Reading National Geographic with Elizabeth Bishop Corinne E. Blackmer The terms ethnoporn and lesbian childhood would seem intrinsic oxymorons. Photographs...

...Mark Rifkin Duke University Press 2006 ROMANCING KINSHIP A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sˆa’s American Indian Stories Mark Rifkin By kinship all Dakota people were held together in a great relation- ship that was theoretically all-inclusive and co-extensive...

...Julie Avril Minich “Aztlán Unprotected: Reading Gil Cuadros in the Aftermath of HIV/AIDS” examines what the gay Chicano writer Gil Cuadros, whose work depicts queer and Chicana/o communities living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles during the late 1980s and early 1990s, teaches us today, in a historical...

...Abdulhamit Arvas The Homoerotics of Orientalism . Boone Joseph Allen . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . xxxiv + 486 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 272 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES QUEERING ORIENTALISM AND CONTRAPUNTAL READING...

... and the Politics of Queer Diasporic Reading Martin Joseph Ponce Anglophone Filipino modernism begins with a scandal. In the spring of 1929, a series of poems called “Man-­Songs” appeared in the Philippines Herald Magazine under the name O. Sevilla. The pseudonym apparently failed to mask the poet’s...

...Sony Coráñez Bolton Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading . Ponce Martin Joseph . New York : New York University Press , 2012 . ix + 289 pp . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Books in Brief Deconstructing Filipino Studies: Queer Reading...

...Fran Martin Duke University Press 2000 GLQ 6.0-03 Martin 1/7/00 3:23 PM Page 61 SURFACE TENSIONS Reading Productions of Tongzhi in Contemporary Taiwan Fran Martin It is probably impossible to think about the English term...

...Anthony M. Petro Books in Brief READING BODIES, WRITING BODIES Anthony M. Petro Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault Mark D. Jordan Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. 259 pp. Mark Jordan’s writing on Michel Foucault performs a kind of drag. Jordan...

.... My reading illuminates how the textual strategies of metaphorical substitution and narrative replacement used to imagine postwar lesbian romance consequently render lesbian motherhood and queer desire as seemingly incommensurable. In the core narrative present in both texts, the arc of lesbian...

...Tyler Bradway This essay argues that queer experimental literature provides a hermeneutic mode to resist the gentrification of LGBTQ literature in the aftermath of the AIDS crisis. Queer experimental literature elicits “bad reading,” affective relations of reading that disrupt the corporeal norms...

... materiality, unpacking the de Manian strands of No Future that critics have tended to ignore; second, it uses the deconstructive dimensions of Edelman’s work to engage in a closer reading of No Future ’s rhetoric, focusing on the text’s ironic use of rhetorical questions. By attending to these overlooked...

...Sean Grattan Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Reference Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . 1993 . “ Queer and Now .” In Tendencies , 1 – 22 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . B o o k s i n B r i e f NEITHER PARANOID NOR REPARATIVE Bad Reading and Literary Succor Sean...

... presents herself, the girls, and District Six more broadly, this article proposes an alternative reading of the Kewpie Photographic Collection, as it is now known. Privileging the creative as opposed to the documentary function of photography and oral testimony, Ramsden-Karelse proposes that Kewpie uses...

... how we should read and relate. Far from attempting to restore to the narrator the coherence or wholeness that myriad suspicious reads have undermined, this reparative reading counsels approaching the text as fragmentary archive. In the process, early modern queer identities, surface versus depth...

...Sandra K. Soto Duke University Press 2005 CHERRÍE MORAGA’S GOING BROWN “Reading Like a Queer” Sandra K. Soto Every person who comes to a queer self-understanding knows in one way or another that her stigmatization is connected with gender, the family, notions of individual...

... that is concomitant with the gentrification of the Lower East Side. The spatial analysis of Loisaida gives way to a reading of Piñero's “walks around his beloved Lower East Side, wherein he is creating and performing at the Café, buying and/or selling drugs, and cruising and hooking up with men,” which “contest...

...Craig Womack “Suspicioning” examines the silences that surround issues of same-sex desire in and out of the poetry of Joy Harjo. Duke University Press 2010 (Muscogee Creek) Suspicioning Imagining a Debate between Those Who Get Confused, and Those Who Don’t, When They Read Critical...

.... More recently, collaborations between scholars such as Mi'kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayers: Readings in North America's First Indigenous Script , by Murdena Marshall and David L. Schmidt, have begun to translate and reinterpret this script using contemporary decolonial methodologies that privilege Indigenous...

...Ramzi Fawaz; Shanté Paradigm Smalls This essay calls for a reinvestment in queer readings of queer literary objects by invoking the Queer Nation polemic, Queers Read This! Tracing the importance and variety of queer reading as a modality of living, an intellectual specialty, and form of sociality...

...Martin Joseph Ponce This essay reconsiders the common trope of gay and lesbian reading from the vantage of racial difference as an entry point into thinking the possibility of comparative queer of color literary history. While testaments to reading as crucial to gay and lesbian identity formation...