Terrorist assemblages: Homonationalism in queer times by Jabir k. Puar discusses the dynamic intersections between queer‚ postcolonial and poststructuralist theory. By postulating a radical view of queer theory‚ her work challenges the oppositional discourse within and outside the LGBT cultures. She states in first chapter‚ “(…) “U.S. sexual exceptionalism‚” a narrative claiming the successful management of life in regard to a people‚ what is now joined by an exceptional form of national homonormativity
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Based on Judith Halberstam’s reading‚ The Queer Art of Failure and Homosexuality and Facism‚ we live in a predominantly binary world. There are usually only two options for most things. For example‚ girl or boy‚ yes or no‚ succeed or fail…etc. For example‚ Halberstam mentions at the beginning of the reading that we have winners and losers in this world. The‚ “...losers leave no records‚ while winners cannot stop talking about it‚ and so the record of failure is ‘a hidden history of pessimism in a
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The queer communities and the communities of color in Los Angeles have a common history of police violence. Their geographic proximity during the 1950’s and 1960’s‚ exposed them to the same heavy policing in the form of "vice" entrapments‚ which were motivated not only by the police’s need to control the queer community‚ but also to stop interracial relationships. The struggles of these two groups were put in evidence in the 1952 case of Horace Martinez and his friends. Martinez was using the restroom
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Psychoanalytical criticism‚ the field of literary criticism most notably developed by Sigmund Freud’s psychological theories‚ reached its peak in the 1940’s and 1950’s. His widespread recognition stemmed from Freudian concepts such as the Oedipal complex‚ which came from his book An Interpretation of Dreams written in 1899. This theory developed by Freud says that at a very young age a child can generate an intense feeling of love for the parent of opposite sex‚ and an almost extreme dislike for
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“Queer”‚ once a slang for “odd” or “abnormal”‚ before it was attributed to lesbian and gay men as a homophobic insult‚ now portrays a spectrum of academic modalities and acknowledges the lives of thousands of fluid gendered peoples. Essentially‚ Queer Studies is the examination of issues pertaining to and intersectionality of gender‚ sexual orientation‚ gender identity‚ race‚ class‚ and ethnicity—revolving around ubiquitous structural and institutional inequality. Lisa Duggans in her article “Making
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This essay attempts to discover how Freud’s psychoanalytical accounts of human nature can bring us to a deeper understanding of the family relationships at work in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare and Freudian theory in Hamlet and Titus Andronicus In 1900 the eminent Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud produced a seminal work entitled The Interpretation of Dreams which contains the idea that dreams allow psychic exploration of the soul‚ that dreams contain psychological
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In Hamlet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ there are a wide array of themes. The most important being that of appearance vs. reality. This theme is consistent throughout the play‚ and spawns the other themes .It also incorporates all the major motifs in the play. The theme is strengthened by the use of symbolism and enables the reader to predict future events in the play. Without the theme of appearance versus reality‚ the play would lack plot‚ action‚ and intrigue‚ causing readers to lose interest. The
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It is a terrible yet bittersweet coincidence that I am writing a response to Timothy Morton’s “Queer Ecology” as my friends and family in the Philippines are being besieged by yet another tropical cyclone. Terrible because I feel guilty sitting cozily in front of my screen while halfway around the world hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who live in areas at risk of flash floods‚ landslides and storm surges are struggling to be evacuated as Ruby (the misleadingly sweet name the cyclone has been baptized
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Smith’s Hyper Hamlet Annotated Hamlet with Hypertext Links to Related Lines‚ Plot Summary‚ Themes‚ Motifs & Symbolism & Word-Play‚ Character Analysis‚ Historical Context‚ and Essays Complete Text of Hamlet Annotated with Hypertext Links (This is useful for searching within the play without bumping into my notes‚ which are discreetly linked via hypertext.) Complete Text of Hamlet Annotated with Interleaved Notes and Links Hamlet Plot Summary Hamlet Themes Hamlet Motifs & Symbolism
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In her essay Homo Pomo: The New Queer Cinema‚ B. Ruby Rich discusses homosexuality as it finds its own recognized foothold in the film industry with the introduction of queer film. Rich explores this new trend and presents us with the excitement of this new movement but also addresses the pitfalls that are present within it as well. She examines the response to the new movement of queer film at three of the most prestigious and influential film festivals of our time‚ Sundance‚ Amsterdam and Toronto
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