...Jennifer Blair Duke University Press 2005 THE GLOVE OF SHAME AND THE TOUCH OF REBECCA BROWN’S GIFTS OF THE BODY Jennifer Blair Rebecca Brown’s Gifts of the Body is a novel about caring for people with AIDS in which the caregiver does not display the signs of affective engagement...

...Alice A. Kuzniar Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws Kate Bornstein New York: Seven Stories Press , 2006 . 231 pp . Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame Sally R. Munt Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing , 2007 . 248 pp...

...Eric Stanley Abstract Through Indigenous critiques of the commons, this article asks what forms of collectivity might be built against the drives of settler-sovereignty. By centering various scales of forced removal and its resistance, I offer a reading of Gay Shame, a queer direct action group...

...Chris A. Eng This article postulates the “angry ethnic fag” as a figure of silenced queer of color dissent. Building on the work of artist Justin Chin, it explores how shame elucidates value economies that apprehend specific acts of indignity as having the currency to forward LGBTQ politics while...

... queer theory must do more than focus on bodily sensations such as pleasure, shame, and touching. The essay makes four key claims: first, that the desensitized postsurgical body cannot be accounted for by a queer discourse in which sexual pleasure is a form of hedonistic activism; second, that a queer...

... and shame surrounding his failures and blockages as a writer. Through her near-identification with James, Sedgwick finds a queer strategy for dealing with her shame and depression around her own writing as a poet. A doctoral student of Sedgwick’s, the author performs the same near-identification...

... and belief. The essay further examines the recent comeback of Montez in contemporary queer debates on camp, failure, and shame in light of this diasporic aesthetics. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 New York underground queer Latino diaspora aesthetics camp For both Josés, Rodríguez...

..., and will. The books discussed, moreover, stay attuned to fecund forms of erotic world-making and other mere and provisional pleasures produced in the slippery zones where shame and intimacy intersect. Together, Extravagant Abjection, Sensational Flesh , and A View from the Bottom remind us of the generative force...

... 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...

... conceptualizations of gender, sexuality, and kinship and produced shame. Sexual orphanings queered children away from their bodies and sexualities, which also worked to orient them away from the future. I turn to Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998) to consider what erotics might remain for these children...

...-Examination.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 24 ( 1976 ): 759 -78. Broucek , Francis J. “Shame and Its Relationship to Early Narcissistic Developments.” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 63 ( 1982 ): 369 -78. Butler , Judith . Gender Trouble: Feminism...

... Probably Think This Essay Is about You .” In Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky Frank Adam . 1995 . “ Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins .” Critical Inquiry 21 , no. 2 : 496 – 522...

...Tavia Nyong'o Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” 
 Kathryn Bond Stockton
 Durham, NC: Duke University Press , 2006 . xi + 271 pp . Duke University Press 2007 Tavia nyong'o is assistant professor of performance studies at New York University...

... with these offenders holds him to what repels him, transforming repulsion into shame, and then transforming ashamedness itself into something of which he is ashamed. In brief, he can neither embrace his group nor let it go.10 The dynamic...

... at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Books in Brief The Low-End Theory Tavia Nyong’o Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” Kathryn Bond Stockton Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 271 pp. Accounts of shame tend to fall in one of two...

... Institute at Duke University. Books in Brief The Low-End Theory Tavia Nyong’o Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” Kathryn Bond Stockton Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 271 pp. Accounts of shame tend to fall in one of two camps, therapeutic...

... of art at Smith College. Books in Brief The Low-End Theory Tavia Nyong’o Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” Kathryn Bond Stockton Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 271 pp. Accounts of shame tend to fall in one of two camps, therapeutic...

... in Brief The Low-End Theory Tavia Nyong’o Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” Kathryn Bond Stockton Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 271 pp. Accounts of shame tend to fall in one of two camps, therapeutic and transfigura- tive. The first stresses...

..., transforming repulsion into shame, and then transforming ashamedness into something of which he is ashamed. In brief, he can neither embrace his group nor let it go.14 Shame such as Goffman describes has been taken as the constitutive affect of queer subjectivity...

... of evidence; dehomog- enizing it by noting the ways that her meaning-making speech acts perform radi- cally different functions at various moments; disrupting the teleological narratives and analyses that her work so easily invites; and transvaluating its affective work of shame and propensity...