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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 391–406.
Published: 01 October 2014
.... The theoretical pressure that the visceral conjures as the line between subject and object becomes increasingly obfuscated in the neoliberal, postcolonial, and neocolonial, environmentally apocalyptic world. Our goal in calling for this work was to map that abject and erotic territory — the blood and guts...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 407–437.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Zeb Tortorici This essay focuses on how viscerality refracts as an issue for archival studies of early modern sexuality (and beyond). Through a microhistorical examination of textual representations of necrophilia, fellatio, masturbation, and erotic religious visions from colonial Mexican...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Kyla Wazana Tompkins This introduction discusses major themes in the eight essays that make up the double issue titled On the Visceral . Focusing on the tensions between viscerality and abstraction, and tracing the connections between gut feeling, alimentary affects, and political sentiment...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 33–63.
Published: 01 January 2015
... abstraction's hidden truth. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Karl Marx Rob Halpern abstraction Visceral Abstractions Sianne Ngai “the spirit and the beef” —Rob Halpern, Music for Porn Eating Face Barbara Johnson opens Persons and Things with a memorable anecdote about her...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 95–120.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Ewa Macura-Nnamdi Examining Dambudzo Marechera's “House of Hunger,” this article follows the visceral fate of what Frantz Fanon has called the “racialization of thought.” Evoking the alimentary tract, especially the gut but also the various processes that take place within it, Marechera posits...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 665–676.
Published: 01 October 2011
... congruity with LGBTQ social and political realities. Taken together, these publications suggest that LGBTQ studies and television studies can make odd bedmates, as scholars negotiate between queer theory's postidentity politics and a marked nostalgia for a politics of visibility—the emboldening, visceral...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 425–452.
Published: 01 October 2012
...William F. Schroeder This essay argues for an affective methodology based on an attention to how visceral connections to film help queer people from the People's Republic of China interpret their subjectivity. The essay follows a theory of affect that focuses not only on emotion but also...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (3): 215–239.
Published: 01 June 2014
... in porn. These strands of dialogue are tied to a conceptualization of utopian sensibility within bareback pornography as an issue of transparency, community, abundance, energy, and intensity. The authors argue for the centrality of fleshiness and viscerality in pornography as well as the necessity...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 121–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Ramzi Fawaz This essay explores the use of viscerally charged language around digestive dysfunction in AIDS cultural productions of the late 1980s and early 1990s. I coin the phrase “the digestive politics and poetics of AIDS” to describe the use of metaphors that linked the digestive dysfunctions...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2020
... , an extensive text about the Maya people. In 2006 Gibson released Apocalypto , a Hollywood film in which all dialogue was in Yucatec Maya. Landa and Gibson both argued that they showed the true Maya world, but each expressed a visceral reaction to Maya sacrifice and, in so doing, infested their own fantasies...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 5–31.
Published: 01 January 2015
... © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Bocados Our bocados, or mouthfuls, are short meditations solicited from vari- ous scholars, writers, and artists on the visceral nature of their work and daily lives. The bocados live in digital space, on the Tumblr that we set up to disseminate...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 541–543.
Published: 01 October 2014
..., Nicholas L. Queer New Right  95 – 114 Mobility, Circulation, and Holland, Sharon P., Marcia Ochoa, and Kyla Correspondence: Queer White Men in Wazana Tompkins the Midcentury Midwest  75 – 95 Introduction: On the Visceral  391 – 406 Takemoto, Tina...
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GLQ (2021) 27 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2021
... for understanding gender and sexual politics (Taylor 2012). But my attachment to democratic socialism, an affinity that shows up in the mundane work of organizing, is also profoundly, queerly visceral. For one thing, I have never teared up so regularly as at political organizing meetings or rallies, as complete...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 491–520.
Published: 01 October 2014
... reproductive tract.2 While the viscera conventionally refer to the entrails — the internal organs of the abdominal and thoracic cavities — my rumination on the visceral qualities of Cho’s work begins, as she does herself, with the vaginal or “pussy” explosions of her 2003...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (4): 580–583.
Published: 01 October 2024
... artists of their more dialectical engagement with the past. A withdrawal from close historicist examination is a deliberate strategy by Lancaster, who instead targets “haptic forms and visceral material operations” to locate “the social and political potential of abstraction” (32). This strategy may...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 January 2020
... literature mediates between the viscerally immediate intimations of queer relationality and the inability for these relations to become collectively materialized in the text s temporality of reception (vii). In other words, the groping, tentative, unsettling, and surprising aesthetics of queer experimental...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (1): 42–44.
Published: 01 January 2018
... on an outdoor stage. I am walking silently. There are no tears. The sounds of my shifting feet become my own bodily lament, a weeping coming out of the skin not from the mouth, a silent wail, a howl from the deep recesses of my gut. How can the viscerality of these images and sounds touch me in ways...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 January 2024
... her attention to praxis. This also comes to the fore in what she calls a pattern of “interpretive ruptures,” which recount visceral experiences with performance and aim to highlight “the partiality of [the author's] genealogy” (xv). In one such section, Jones narrates finding photos of the radical...
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GLQ (2017) 23 (3): 440–443.
Published: 01 June 2017
... visceral invitation to explore those constitutive silences surrounding embodied experiences of depression, eating dis- orders, and the like. Gut Feminism, in its specificities, calls us to rethink our mental health narratives, and more generally, it compels us to consider the physical...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (1): 38–41.
Published: 01 January 2018
... this information, but I increasingly think of it as energy, as something simultaneously of me and that ows through me, through the liveliness of the world: it is viscerally embodied, spiritual. It does not really belong to me, yet it is also my own expansive heart. In the spiritual tradition to which I am...