...Judith Halberstam Duke University Press 2005 Shame and White Gay Masculinity When I first received an invitation to speak at the University of Michigan’s Judith Halberstam “Gay Shame” conference, I felt...

...Sulgi Lie This article juxtaposes two 2011 Hollywood films— Shame , directed by Steve McQueen, and Drive , directed by Nicolas Winding Refn—that in their mutations of narrative time and cinematic montage demonstrate the ongoing salience of Fredric Jameson’s Marxist analysis of postmodern culture...

... on Wittgenstein, an academic detail she's shamed for in the trial. When her university professor is called to testify, she ponders with skepticism: Why did she have to work on Wittgenstein? Why not work on a philosopher who is “closer to her own culture”? At this point, I heard the audience giggle. I thought...

...Debali Mookerjea-Leonard Using exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen's novel Lajja ( Shame ), this essay addresses questions of the articulation of a vulnerable masculinity in the political arena. It contends that in South Asia the field of sectarian politics has become the site for asserting...

...” body commodified by dominant gay male culture. I propose regarding that brown body as an axis in the formation of a cosmopolitan gay male identity and community. More specifically, I argue that this brown body mediates gay male shame. These preliminary speculations...

... les transitent.] They make his drama.”5 The combination of a delayed shattering of the subject, new under- standing of the self as black, and the overwhelming flood of conscious feelings creates a nonsubject who is submerged in guilt and shame...

..., Lee insists that certain prevailing epistemological paradigms, such as gay shame, have been implicitly universalized in queer studies to great social and political harm. Refusing the disavowal of castration...

... important Saidian moments of self-revelation and redefinition — one concerning shame and responsibility, the other writing the space between mourning, territory, and the law. Vichian Inventory: Repilogamenti...

..., Matthew Arnold, whose work provokes an ethos of collective humiliation —  particularly in his footnoted skirmishes with other critics — for the pur- poses of shaming critical communities into shape. Arnold’s excessive tex- tual promiscuity, his inquisitive...

... in the pressure of consuming to excess, the pleasure of consuming through acts of witness, or the pleasure of observing changes in the body. Other pleasures include witnessing transformation, shaming or being shamed, force-feeding, bloating, smothering, slow-motion video play, and much more. In a master's thesis...

... presumably lived, in the very early morning. He had exclaimed that this image clearly showed Judith Butler bolting from some exciting night in New York, walking the walk of shame. In only about thirty minutes, the picture was sent to me by my friend in London, together with a question: “What are you up...

... to Lamrani, tries to dispel the notion of family “guilt,” and she is there to put behind her once and for all, it seems, her family’s complicity with this shameful period. For clearly there seems to be a collective sense of shame here involved — collective...

... of looking is dissociated from the process of shaming. In the interest of clarity, let me briefly sketch the contours of an argu- ment still to come. In the current conflict, for which Abu Ghraib has become so crucial a sign...

....28 Women who survived rape often suffered physical damage and were left not only feeling shame but also guilt. As Diken and Laustsen wrote of former Yugoslavia, “The victim is excluded by neighbors and by family members. Hence the rape victim...

... wants to escape the salt mines just to end up the queen of punishing rigor? Who wants to serve the queen of punishing rigor? Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick reminds us of the queer power of “transformational shame,” but Cheryl Clarke also warns us about the “failure to transform.” 5 When does shaming...

... 1 10/19/05 2:37:13 PM Shame and White Gay Masculinity Judith Halberstam 219 Gay Rights versus Queer Theory: What Is Left of Sodomy after Lawrence v...

... Complex (AK Press, 2011) and the codirector, with Chris Vargas, of the filmsHomotopia (2006) and Criminal Queers (2011). Critical Resistance and Gay Shame are among the activist collectives with which Eric works. Helga Tawil-Souri is assistant professor in the Department of Media, Cul- ture...

...-averting individuals.”5 As a form of governance, these programs are notable in their disciplinary reliance not on the inculcation of virtue but rather on shame and scolding. Sheindlin’s notoriously insult- ing “zero tolerance” brand...

... with no attendant identities or consequences, now symbolizes the space of repression and perversion, and the site of freedom has been relocated to Western identity. For example, the queer theorist Patrick Moore, author of Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History...