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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 245–273.
Published: 01 September 2022
... proximity to embodiment and eros but also as enticingly out of joint with their historical moment. In pursuit of the concept of eccentricity, this essay applies twenty-first-century methods developed by queer studies to the representational strategies Sitwell undertook in English Eccentrics (1933) and I...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 465–490.
Published: 01 December 2015
.... Muñoz ( 2009 : 3) seeks a radical queer futurity through “historically situated struggles, a collectivity that is actualized or potential.” This sense of potentiality is introduced by a study of the queer Marxism of the 1930s: the flickering possibility of new collective definitions of the sexual...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 248–251.
Published: 01 June 2012
... collection of essays on South African “histories of the book”; and coeditor of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies . He also writes about South African art and postcolonial queer studies. South African Literature beyond the Cold War . By Popescu Monica . New York...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 244–247.
Published: 01 June 2012
... with its atten-
dant cultural speci city. Furthermore, the book draws on anthropology, art
history, history, literary criticism, and postcolonial and queer studies. It is a
truly interdisciplinary work that represents the best in cultural studies.
The provocative question “What would it mean...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 237–240.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., and
of course English, as well as the Creoles based on them — each with its atten-
dant cultural speci city. Furthermore, the book draws on anthropology, art
history, history, literary criticism, and postcolonial and queer studies. It is a
truly interdisciplinary work that represents the best in cultural...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 240–244.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., and
of course English, as well as the Creoles based on them — each with its atten-
dant cultural speci city. Furthermore, the book draws on anthropology, art
history, history, literary criticism, and postcolonial and queer studies. It is a
truly interdisciplinary work that represents the best in cultural...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 251–254.
Published: 01 June 2012
... and queer studies. It is a
truly interdisciplinary work that represents the best in cultural studies.
The provocative question “What would it mean for a woman to love
another woman in the Caribbean posed by the Jamaican American author
Michelle Cliff serves Tinsley as a springboard to launch...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Florian Gargaillo Abstract This essay argues for the distinctive role of allusion in queer poetry of the pre-Stonewall era, using the work of Oscar Wilde, A. E. Housman, and Countee Cullen as case studies. Most allusions depend on implicit verbal echoes that can be identified by readers able...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 117–128.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., postcolonial theory, and queer studies. What is more, the issue seeks to unmoor detail from the exclusive preserve of nineteenth-century fiction and the realist novel and instead establish the centrality of detail in modern and contemporary writing where it has been less emphasized. Details are often thought...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 265–267.
Published: 01 June 1999
... Press, 1998. 413 pp. $44.95
cloth, $21.95 paper.
To those who came of age in the profession of English before the rise of the
New Historicism, cultural studies, queer studies, and performance theory
and before the deregulation of the English curriculum, Emerson R. Marks’s
history of poetic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 129–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
... effects. For Propp and for much of queer studies, the introduction of a queer character is at best a distraction and at worst a reentrenchment of homophobic structures. But for Lévi-Strauss, the character’s queerness can—and should—bring the structure of heteronormativity into view. Treating...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2019
... seemed major feminist claims, until a few years later Sedgwick’s Foucauldian Epistemology of the Closet (1990) made clear that she had already been gestating queer studies. Bruce Robbins in The Servant’s Hand: English Fiction from Below (1986), Franco Moretti in The Way of the World...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 542–545.
Published: 01 December 2021
... studies has blossomed over the past ten years or so, taking shape as a coherent set of methodologies in book and print-culture history, literary criticism, and media studies. If it has not yet achieved the explanatory comprehensiveness of such well-established approaches as queer studies and narrative...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 527–552.
Published: 01 December 2020
... reading as a less invasive hermeneutic procedure reaches back to Sedgwick’s claims, more than two decades ago, on behalf of “reparative reading.” Writing out of queer literary studies, Sedgwick issued a polemic against the hermeneutics of suspicion (which she called “paranoid reading”) and thereby laid...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (4): 505–538.
Published: 01 December 2005
...
studies alike have found the Harlem Renaissance a rich source of queer
social and artistic practices, though literary analyses have focused more
on narrative in the work of Richard Bruce Nugent, Wallace Thurman,
and Claude McKay than on poetry to illuminate those practices.26
Although my use...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 7–28.
Published: 01 March 2004
... + Feminist + Men’s + Les-
bian and Gay + Queer Studies = Gender Studies?” differences 9, no. 3 (1997): 1–30;
Joan Wallach Scott, “Deconstructing Equality versus Difference; or, The Uses of Post-
structuralist Theory for Feminism,” in Conflicts in Feminism, ed. Marianne Hirsch and
Evelyn Fox Keller (New...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 207–238.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of language-in-use for queer literary studies, see esp. Lucey 2019 , 2022 . 9 While not articulated in narratological terms, José Esteban Muñoz’s ( 1999 ) pioneering theory of disidentification lays the groundwork for my approach to queer uptake. 10 On how this tension infuses Black queer...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 349–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
... only so far to understanding their position” [135]), yet too narrowly androcentric, so that queer in this account really means cis gay men. His response to the first issue is perhaps too quick: “Inevitably the study will fail to achieve the right balance, for which one can blame variously my own...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 359–361.
Published: 01 September 2022
... throughout and augments every biological family. Accordingly, the dynastic emerges as a key figure of queer kinship in modernity. While the final chapter, “Georg, or The Queer Dynasty,” is the only one to focus on an avowedly homosocial community, the entire study exemplifies, and indeed facilitates, a queer...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 542–545.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Susan S. Lanser Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History . By Heather Love. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 196 pp. University of Washington 2009 Susan S. Lanser is professor of English, comparative literature, and women's and gender studies...
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