... for well-intentioned readers. We propose that both the narrative form and content of Hung's science fiction address the homophobic deployments of what we term reticent schadenfreude. By exposing how it renders oppositional or deviant sexual positionalities impossible or off the map of civil discourse...

... Eurocentrism has combined with a rather less dig- nified schadenfreude that a critic of his fame and stature should have set positions 14:3  Winter 2006 636 himself up for such a fall. As Imre Szeman puts it, “Jameson’s...