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...David Ruffel; Maria O’Sullivan Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 David Ruffel PINGET QUEER TRANSLATED BY MARIA O'SULLIVAN T his article proposes a rereading of Robert Pinget's work as seen through the prism of his homosexuality, a proposal that will sound at once both...

... of these crossings helps reframe translation not as a single one-way trajectory from source to target language but rather as a multiple and dynamic back-and-forth and a temporal opening to new possibilities akin to the version of queerness suggested by José Esteban Muñoz as “the work of not settling for the present...

...Anne Herrmann Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Anne Herrmann QUEER COUPLINGS Several years ago, shortly ­after I retired from the University of Michigan and moved to Seattle, Ross wrote me a letter. It was written, in part, in response...

...Jennifer Eun-Jung Row [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 disability race retrofit The question then becomes more complex: How can we attend to diversity (race, disability, queerness) in a manner that does...

...Kevin Kopelson David Caron . My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2009 . Pp. 267 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS 579 Hamilton tells us that one casualty of Locke's thought...

...A. W. Strouse Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 A. ~ Strouse MISOGYNISTS AS QUEERS IN LE LWRE DE LA CITE DES DAMESt Christine de Pizan, in Le Livre de La Cite des Dames (1405), insinuates that misogyny is, as it were, a little queer. At the beginning of the City...

... the figure of the child to the conservative ideological stance that would co-opt it entirely as the antithesis of queerness. Instead, Lambert centers the child as the queerest figure of all. Lambert, contrasted against Edelman’s abandonment of the child, posits the child that we all were (and might still...

...Jane Gallop Abstract The author traces her reading of Barthes’s 1973 book, Le Plaisir du texte , over the last five decades. Examining her published writings on the book, she traces how it meshes with her critical attachments to psychoanalysis, feminism, and queer theory. Claiming it as a text...

... of translation both to the futurity of the text (the translation coming after the writing of the source text) and to queer desire and intimacy. For Bouquet, both the translation of queer poetics and translation itself as a form of queer poetics signify hope for the future of queer desire and joy, even...

... on the celebration of singularities—however queer—rather than on conformity. 19. Dinshaw proposes that Kempe’s white clothing, marking the temporal disjunction at the heart of her life, attests to her status as a citizen of Heaven on earth: “When she later adopts the white clothes of a virgin . . . Margery may...

... participate in what Nelson Goodman calls "worldmaking" (66). This argument allows Lucey to frame Gide, Colette, and Proust as purveyors of first-person utterances about same-sex sexuality who are engaged in conversation with each other within "a certain kind of popular queer culture" in the early decades...

... utterances about same-sex sexuality who are engaged in conversation with each other within "a certain kind of popular queer culture" in the early decades of the twentieth century. That conversation shifts over time in a complex relation to the social formations of which the conversation is a part. Lucey's...

... there to the feminist critique offered by, for example, Gayle Rubin, another easy transition. The fact of medievalists coming late to feminism makes their scholarship virtually contemporary with the rise of queer theory, and this in turn has meant that many of the earliest writings on feminism by medievalists...

... reveals how the sexual body became the main feature of decadent dandyism, thereby forwarding the discussion around the dandy considerably. However, although the focus on the sexual body links this discussion inevitably with queer theory, Klee virtually omits a queer perspective. Despite quoting authors...

..., and lesbians who frequent queer bars and cabarets). She is attentive to a number of characteristics axes of variations in sexualities we might say that aren t always factored into typical discussions of sexuality: that sexualities have a class or regional component, that age difference is important in some...

...” through the work of the queer theorist Heather Love, in particular a talk given at ICI Berlin for a symposium called “The Ontology of the Couple” (June 9–10, 2016), https://doi.org/10.25620/e160609 . Love’s discussion aims to think through ways that the couple can exist alongside a queer politics rather...

... countries in Latin America, specifically Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Works Cited Ahmed Sara . Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006 . Ahmed Sara . What’s the Use? On the Uses of Use . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...

..., at the level of theme and interpretation, m­ atters appear rather diff­ere­ nt. No doubt the most import­ant stimulus to consider the question has come from queer studies, and not only from its literary manifestations. In the 1980s, texts such as John Boswell s Chris­tiani­ ty, Social Tolerance...

... than the question of what it means to be human. (ALISON JAMES, University of Chicago) David Caron. My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. Pp. 267. My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community, by David Caron, is a beautifully...

... queer-feminist criticism. It helped me better understand the relationship between the male players who “even under the strictest controls . . . still manage to signal the existence of hidden transcripts in their plays . . . [sometimes] by loudly proclaiming their adherence to the censor’s decrees” (58...