Queer Research Articles

Houses in Motion and Queer Voyagers in the Ordinary: Spatial Ideology of Modernism and Gertrude Stein’s Domestic Space

The dominant historical conceptions of space during the modernism period were shaped by dichotomous ideological mechanisms, such as the gendered division of Public vs. Private, Center vs. Marginal, Urban vs. Suburban, and Quality vs. Popular cul ture. The conventional mode of understanding modern space has been thus the ideology of separation and contradictions. Moreover, through the process of accelerated globalization, the idea of modernity became a homogeneous concept and brought about the abstractions of time, space, and social relationships, all of which changed the perceptual meanings of urban and domestic spaces in Europe. However, an understanding of modern spaces in such dichotomous terms may overlook the more complex nature of cultural modernism, the meanings of which are generated by a wide variety of agents and concrete elements in the day-to-day life of modern subjects. Following the theoretical leads of Michel de Certeau, Rita Felski, and Ben Highmore, etc., this paper argues that contemporary avant-gardists such as Gertrude Stein redefined the conventional notion of modernism by emphasizing the interconnected relationship between art and domestic and varying the contents of what is traditionally understood to be “modern.” Through a close-reading of several plays in Stein’s Geography and Plays (1922), this paper examines how Stein intersects gender, sex uality, and spaces to explore the different meanings of the domestic spaces experienced by her queer subjects. I also argue that the concept of modernism and its geographical dis course can be recreated through the struggles of socially marginalized characters and their repetitive negotiations with their surroundings.

IRIDESCENT FUTURES: Imagining Alternatives with Queering the Museum

IRIDESCENT FUTURES: Imagining Alternatives with Queering the Museum

Coconut/Cane & Cutlass: Queer Visuality in the Indo-Caribbean Lesbian Archive

The Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies is an interdisciplinary, peer reviewed, open access online journal focusing on the dissemination of scholarly work about Latin America and the Caribbean. The editors also welcome submissions focusing on relations among Latin American and Caribbean countries and with other states and regions of the world. MARLAS publishes research findings aimed at a multidisciplinary audience and invites submissions based on rigorous analysis from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. The journal publishes scholarly articles, essays, research notes, book reviews, and periodic special issues examining specific topics in Latin American studies. MARLAS accepts submissions in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The Editorial Board asks prospective authors to examine carefully the guidelines for submissions. Previously published as Latin American Essays, a printed journal, since 1988, MARLAS represents a continuation of a 30-year tradition of high-quality scholarly contributions to the field of Latin American studies. MARLAS is a publication of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS). For inquiries, please contact middleatlanticreviewlas@gmail.comMiddle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies es una revista académica en línea, revisada por pares, interdisciplinaria y de acceso libre, dedicada a la difusión de estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe. Los editores también consideran trabajos que traten de las relaciones entre los países de América Latina y el Caribe con otras naciones y regiones del mundo. MARLAS se dirige a un público multidisciplinario y acepta trabajos que contengan un análisis riguroso y con una variedad de perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas. La revista acepta artículos científicos, ensayos, notas de investigación, reseñas de libros y, periódicamente, cuadernos especiales que examinen temas específicos en estudios latinoamericanos. MARLAS publica en inglés, español y portugués. El Consejo Editorial pide a los autores que atiendan cuidadosamente las directrices establecidas para el envío de manuscritos. Inicialmente publicada de forma impresa como Latin American Essays, MARLAS mantiene y sigue una tradición de 30 años de contribuciones académicas de alta calidad en el campo de los estudios latinoamericanos. MARLAS es una publicación del Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS). Para consultas, por favor contáctenos en el correo electrónico middleatlanticreviewlas@gmail.comMiddle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies é uma revista acadêmica on-line, revisada por pares, interdisciplinar e de acesso livre dedicada `a divulgação de estudos sobre a América Latina e o Caribe. Os editores também consideram trabalhos sobre as relações entre os países da América Latina e do Caribe com outras nações e regiões do mundo. MARLAS se dirige a um público multidisciplinar e aceita trabalhos que contenham análises rigorosas e com uma variedade de perspectivas teóricas e metodológicas. MARLAS publica artigos científicos, ensaios, notas de pesquisa, resenhas de livros e, periodicamente, edições especiais examinando temas específicos dos estudos latino-americanos. MARLAS aceita submissões em Inglês, Espanhol e Português. O Conselho Editorial solicita aos autores que examinem cuidadosamente as diretrizes para submissões. Publicada anteriormente, desde 1988, como Latin American Essays, uma revista impressa, MARLAS mantém e dá seguimento a uma tradição de 30 anos de contribuições de alta qualidade acadêmica no campo de estudos latino-americanos. MARLAS é uma publicação do Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS). Para consultas, por favor entre em contato com: middleatlanticreviewlas@gmail.com MARLAS IS INDEXED BY THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (DOAJ), SCOPUS, THE HISPANIC-AMERICAN PERIODICAL INDEX (HAPI), CROSSREF, GOOGLE SCHOLAR, AND BY THE MLA DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS.MARLAS IS HOSTED BY THE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION RESEARCH COMMONS PLATFORM https://www.larcommons.net/site/journal-publishing/ FROM LATIN AMERICAN ESSAYS TO MARLASPublished by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, MARLAS represents a continuation of a 30-year tradition of high-quality scholarly contributions to the field of Latin American studies. MARLAS' predecessor, Latin American Essays, a printed and interdisciplinary journal, was published annually until 2014. We invite you to explore the journal's archive here: Latin American Essays, a MACLAS publication

From “Mayo” Pete to Joe Exotic: HowTiger KingTaught Us How to be Queer Again

From “Mayo” Pete to Joe Exotic: HowTiger KingTaught Us How to be Queer Again

Desarmar(se) varón - construir(se)padre: intervenciones psicoanalíticas con jóvenes varones en contexto de encierro punitivo

A partir de los desarrollos de los estudios de género, las masculinidades y la teoría cuir problematizaremos, en primer lugar, cómo el psicoanálisis explica al sujeto en vínculo con las concepciones culturales de masculinidad y feminidad. En segundo lugar, analizaremos cuáles son las intervenciones clínicas posibles en la cárcel. Al momento de reflexionar sobre nuestras herramientas como psicoanalistas, se analizarán las lógicas de producción de un dispositivo terapéutico en una unidad penitenciaria atendiendo a dos especificidades: las lógicas del encierro punitivo y los lazos sexo-afectivos de los jóvenes varones privados de libertad. Partiremos de la noción de intervención, que atendiendo a estas particularidades, y entendiendo la ética psicoanalítica orientada a la subversión del sujetx, se ve mutilada al no incluir las categorías de análisis y praxis de los estudios de género.

Patch, Walpole, and Queer Complicity

Patch, Walpole, and Queer Complicity

Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name as an Autoethnography

Audre Lorde’s Zami (1982) is an autobiographical novel in which the author draws extensively on her life experiences as an African American lesbian writer. Due to the autobiographical dimensions within the work, scholars have previously critiqued Zami as a genre text, reading the book specifically as a female memoir, a lesbian novel, a queer coming- out Bildungsroman, a slave narrative or, broadly, a novel of black feminism. Beyond these conventional approaches, this essay instead focuses on some of the ways in which Lorde’s personal experiences and memories are comprehensively shifted into larger rubrics (cultural, political) in both realistic and abstract styles. Taking a poststructuralist approach to language and the world on one side, while identifying ancestral, cultural, and mythic strata on the other, Lorde violates any so-called conventional form of autobiography. Read in these critical contexts, Zami can be critiqued as a counter-narrative actively transgressing a suite of oppressions. This is no simple autobiography, and at the intersection of conflicting forces, there appears her relationship with her mother, a connection which serves as a symbolic nexus wherein the personal and the collective are combined. When read through an autoethnographic lens, ostensibly contradictory impulses are reconciled: Zami stages and codifies narratives of both oppression and liberation.

The Deliverance of Christian Queer

The Deliverance of Christian Queer

Jane Gallop. Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019

К настоящему моменту вопросы сексуальности и нормативности все чаще поднимаются в рамках disability studies и социальной и культурной геронтологии (King 2016; King, Almack, and Jones 2019; McRuer 2006; Pickard 2018; Shakespeare 2014; Westwood 2016; Westwood and Price 2016). Те немногие работы, которые были опубликованы на русском языке, предлагают подробный и качественный анализ таких тем, как стигматизация сексуальности людей с инвалидностью (Ярская-Смирнова 2002), проявление гендерной идентичности и сексуальности в условиях психоневрологического интерната (Клепикова и Утехин 2012), гегемонная и крип-маскулинность (Филлипс 2012; Хартблей 2014), женский опыт инвалидности (Доминелли 2004) и стратегии создания семьи (Носенко-Штейн 2018). Социальные исследователи старения в российском контексте обращались к изучению контроля над сексуальностью людей в старшем возрасте (Зеликова 2018) и телесного опыта старения (Рогозин 2018). Несмотря на гораздо большее количество зарубежных работ, книга Джейн Гэллоп «Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus» стала одним из первых изданий, полностью посвященных вопросам, возникающим на стыке негетеронормативной сексуальности, старения и инвалидности. Ее центральная задача – анализ проживания сексуальности как опыта и идентичности в контексте жизни с инвалидностью, приобретенной в старшем возрасте (с. 13). Text in Russian DOI: 10.25285/2078-1938-2020-12-2-228-234

Hearing and Feeling the Black Vampire: Queer Affects in the Film Soundtrack

There is very little scholarship that considers questions of queerness in relation to film music, and the scholarship that does (Paulin, 1997; Haworth et. al., 2012; Buhler, 2014; Dubowsky, 2016) tends to approach the subject from a representational standpoint, identifying instances in which the soundtrack participates in the representation of queerness in film. The role that the soundtrack plays in fostering queer engagement with film has been left relatively underexplored. In this essay, I assert that the theories of counteridentification and disidentification as articulated by Jose Esteban Munoz in his groundbreaking queer of color critique text Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Munoz; 1999) have much to offer scholars of film music interested in exploring questions of identification and auditory and/or emotional spectatorship. I will begin by laying out Munoz’s formulation of these theories and then briefly sketch counteridentification’s long history within film music criticism, an academic orientation that sets up Hollywood’s musical norms as the product of an oppressive “culture industry” and the disruption of those norms through modernist European musical practices as liberatory counteridentification (Adorno/Eisler; 1947). With these understandings in place, I will move to a discussion of two U.S. films from the 1970s whose soundtracks present Black audiences with audiovisual experiences that invite counteridentification and disidentification respectively: Blacula (William Crain; 1972) and Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn; 1973).

Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive

Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive

Homofobia no futebol masculino: revisão narrativa de literatura

INTRODUÇÃO: O Brasil é conhecido como o país do futebol, que é um campo de encontro de masculinidades regidas pela norma heterossexual, onde dissidentes desse aspecto podem ser marginalizados nesse espaço. OBJETIVO: Dessa forma, este estudo objetivou discutir a homofobia no contexto do futebol. MÉTODOS: Metodologicamente, esta é uma revisão narrativa da literatura, onde foram analisados 6 artigos, 5 em português e 1 em inglês, publicados entre 2012-2018 indexados nas bases de dados Scielo, PEPSIC, BVS e Capes. Os dados coletados foram analisados a partir da elaboração de um protocolo de revisão e posteriormente a partir da técnica Análise de Conteúdo. RESULTADOS: Os resultados foram compilados em cinco categorias: 1) Futebol como contexto de performatividade de masculinidade; 2) Homossexuais no futebol; 3) A homossociabilidade no futebol; 4) Os estádios, a torcida, a linguagem e a mídia; 5) Torcidas queers e inclusão, que discutiram que o futebol é um contexto de performatividade da masculinidade hegemônica do projeto heterossexual, onde homossexuais tem sua participação limitada e/ou banida. CONSIDERAÇÕES FINAIS: Caso desejem participar do esporte, homossexuais precisam se adequar a norma heterossexual, geralmente permanecendo no armário. É permitida a homossociabilidade no futebol como forma de amor ao time e a linguagem é usada como meio onde a violência homofóbica é expressada, mas admite-se que mudanças nesse cenário estão ocorrendo, ainda que a passos lentos, possibilitando a proposta de masculinidades inclusivas. Conclui-se que o futebol representa bem mais do que um esporte, mas um jogo político e um dispositivo da sexualidade, que regula as relações de gênero entre homens.

The Fugitivity of Forced Queerness

The Fugitivity of Forced Queerness

Dispatches from Queer Potluck: [Extra]ordinary Affects as a Project of Belonging

Dispatches from Queer Potluck: [Extra]ordinary Affects as a Project of Belonging

Tommaso M. Milani (ed.). (2018) Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality

Tommaso M. Milani (ed.). (2018) Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality

Reimagining Erotic Knowledge in the Queer Caribbean

Reimagining Erotic Knowledge in the Queer Caribbean

LGBQ-affirming and -nonaffirming supervision: Perspectives from a queer trainee.

LGBQ-affirming and -nonaffirming supervision: Perspectives from a queer trainee.

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau

Queer Cosplay in Israel

Queer Cosplay in Israel

"Want of Serenity": James, Sargent, and the Queer Problem of Divas

"Want of Serenity": James, Sargent, and the Queer Problem of Divas