Queer Research Articles

Rosalind Kerr, ed. Queer Theatre in Canada

ROSALIND KERR, ed. Queer Theatre in Canada Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Vol. 7. Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2007. 282 pp. Dirige par Rosalind Kerr, Queer Theatre in Canada est le septieme volume de la collection >. Comme ce recueil de textes est paru en 2007, il peut paraitre etrange au lecteur de le voir recense si tardivement. Mais il en va parfois ainsi pour de tels livres quand presque l'ensemble des chercheurs qui travaillent dans une specialite figure dans la table des matieres d'un ouvrage, il est alors moins aise de trouver quelqu'un pour en faire le compte-rendu. D'oU l'idee etrange de faire appel a un francophone, avec les difficultes que cela suppose quand le terme central du titre ne trouve pas d'equivalent dans la langue de celui qui doit en signer la recension. En fait, je ne connais aucun vocable francais dont la signification et les connotations recouvrent celle de >. Le syntagme le plus proche serait > utilise lors des celebrations de la fierte gaie de Montreal. Or, en plus de ne pas renvoyer directement a la question de l'orientation sexuelle, ce substantif ne procede pas a la revalorisation d'un mot autrefois juge pejoratif. A moins qu'on ne se rebatte sur le qualificatif >, encore plus vague que le precedent. En effet, > possedait au moins l'avantage d'inscrire le phenomene dans la cite et de s'attaquer au caractere normatif de sa definition habituelle. Quoiqu'il en soit, l'un des interets de ce florilege--car il s'agit d'une selection d'une bonne vingtaine textes portant sur le theatre gay, lesbien, bisexuel et transgenre (GLBT)--est justement qu'il montre l'evolution du phenomene au Canada : d'une dramaturgie gay a des manifestations et a des performances qui en viennent a etre regroupees sous le terme rassembleur de queer. Du coup, estil souligne, le mouvement passe de la radicalite et de la fixite a une ouverture et une fluidite plus grandes. Toutefois, ce tournant, soutiennent certains, en gomme le caractere critique et subversif, voire prepare le terrain au retour de l'exclusion au sein meme de la communaute GLBT. Les pages les plus eclairantes a ce sujet sont signees par J. Paul Halferty, Sky Gilbert, ainsi que par la directrice de la publication. Le premier observe avec subtilite l'evolution de l'usage du mot queer de la part des dirigeants de Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Le second, qui a jadis ete le directeur artistique de cette compagnie, deplore cruellement le fait qu'aujourd'hui, les jeunes soient surtout incites par les tenants du theatre queer actuel a se fondre dans la societe sans manifester de difference qui puisse choquer. Pour sa part, Rosalind Kerr est d'avis que le > n'a peut-etre ete qu'une >, car, dans leur abandon du militantisme pour une interrogation de la normalite, ecrit-elle en citant Sue-Ellen Case, ses tenants ont oublie le pouvoir integrateur du patriarcat, du capital et de la nation. Cette derniere est avec Michel Foucault, Judith Butler et quelques autres les principales sources theoriques auxquelles s'abreuvent les quelques 21 auteurs des articles reunis ici. …

Queer, Persian and Diasporic: Engaging with the Gay Art of Siros Ariya

Queer, Persian and Diasporic: Engaging with the Gay Art of Siros Ariya

QUEER BIOETHICS: WHY ITS TIME HAS COME

QUEER BIOETHICS: WHY ITS TIME HAS COME

Book Review: Queer indigenous studies: Critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature.

Review(s) of: Queer indigenous studies: Critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature, by Driskill, Q.-L., Finley, C., Gilley, B. J., and Morgensen, S. L. (2011). Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8165-2907-0.

Queer Again? Power, Politics and Ethics

Queer Again? Power, Politics and Ethics

Utopian yearning: reconstructing China’s queer cultural histories

Wenqing Kang (2009) Obsession: Male Same‐sex Relations in China, 1900–1950, Queer Asia series. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, ISBN: 978‐962‐209‐981‐4 Wenqing Kang’s research monograph on ma...

Queer Eruv

Queer Eruv

Queers read this

Queers read this

Path(o)s of Mourning. Memory, Death and the Invisible Body in Derek Jarman’s Blue

My work here addresses two quite complex issues. The first one is the virulence of the hostility toward gay men that the AIDS pandemic has released: this is the backdrop against which Jarman’s extended elaboration and mourning for his own death is performed, after his diagnosis as body-positive in 1986. The second issue links to the open question of public mourning and its relation to AIDS in the early 90s, when the AIDS epidemic is not at its height, but it is certainly more visible than before, and many artists register the impact of the new sensibility this medical and social emergency actually moulds. One of striking aspect of gay and queer cultures, particularly in the decade closing the millennium, is the way in which they articulate the individual grief of the sick – often isolated and rejected by the community – into collective forms of mourning taking the shapes of different rituals, all of them trying to absorb and accept the deep pathos of loss in multiple paths of mourning. Jarman, for example, writes and shoot Blue precisely to this purpose. The film is first screened in 1993 and it is soon given by the critics as his last work; the artist will in fact die soon after. Mourning as a key to it, the solution to the riddle of death with AIDS, both for Jarman and for many people in the same conditions. Under these circumstances, therefore, death rites acquire a double-sided quality, in that – as Phelan maintains – they “enact the difficult force of a grief which simultaneously mourns the lost object and ourselves” (Phelan 1997: 153). Autobiography overcomes the borders of selfhood to take on a universal flavor that enables both the author of the work and its public to elaborate both the artist’s personal death and that of others (Griffin 2000: 24). As Butler briefly but effectively points out in the final chapter of her Bodies that Matter (1993), the 90s are marked precisely by this fatal interweaving of mourning for those lost and rage and anger at the way the AIDS emergency is dealt with by public institutions. At a diachronic look, however, what happens in the 90s results the most

Queer writing: homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction

Queer writing: homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction

Like a Carsic River: Gay Independent Cinema from Underground Films to New Queer Cinema and Beyond

Like a Carsic River: Gay Independent Cinema from Underground Films to New Queer Cinema and Beyond .

Blind Spots and Failed Performance: Abortion, Feminism, and Queer Theory

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The Blithedale Romance 's Queer Style

The Blithedale Romance 's Queer Style

It's Elementary in Appalachia: Helping Prospective Teachers and Their Students Understand Sexuality and Gender.

Abstract The most blatant discrimination that exists today in schools is that directed toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex students (1/g/b/t/i/q). English and language arts teacher education programs can help foster critical awareness among future teachers of sexuality and gender as well as provide the pedagogical skills and curriculum resources to bring these issues into their classrooms. Using Debra Chasoff's film It's Elementary as an entry point, the author demonstrates how children's literature and related resources are used in a teacher education program in Appalachia. The language arts classroom can be a space where students discuss 1/g/b/t/i/q literature, confront the cultural naturalization of heterosexuality, and reflect on their role as critical educators.

Fire's Queer Anti-Communalism

Abstract While many critics have pointed out how Fire's (1996) reception reveais much about the Hindutva agenda of fundamentalists and their use of women as symbols for the nation, no one has traced the critique of fundamentalism embedded in the film itself in the haunting figure of the Hindu-Muslim union that is visible, and, in fact, audible throughout. Two of the songs in Fire come from Bombay (1995) and reference that film's allegory of an inclusive, secular India. In contrast to other critics who focus only on Fire's reception, I read scenes such as the ones featuring the Bombay score in order to show how a number of interrelated fundamentalist debates are alluded to in the text itself.

Monumentally Queer: Solemnity and Beat Convenience on Remembrance Driveway

Monumentally Queer: Solemnity and Beat Convenience on Remembrance Driveway

What's Queer about Race?

What's Queer about Race?

Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late‐Twentieth‐Century Vienna

Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late‐Twentieth‐Century Vienna. Matti Bunzl. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. 292 pp.

Queer Matters: A Response to Robert Fulford

Queer Matters: A Response to Robert Fulford

Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida. By John Schad.

Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida. By John Schad.