Queer Exoticism

Examining the Queer Exotic Within
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4438-1928-2
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten

Queer Exoticism: Examining the Queer Exotic Within joins the growing bibliography of queer postcolonial and queer race studies. The authors assembled here examine the queer tendency to visit decidedly different and unusual subjects of desire in an effort, partially at least, to find oneself. The identity quest that is inherent in the search for the exotic often results in something quite the opposite of foreign since it forms and articulates that which is ourselves. Thus experiencing the exotic becomes a path to self-knowledge, not unlike the work of therapy wherein the examination of elements that appear at first peculiar or unfamiliar end up opening channels to self-discovery. In this way, the gaze outward turns inward to exhibit an inner exoticism that, at times, is at once, always and already, inner and outer. These essays also focus on various questions of imperialism, race, exoticism, along with other aspects of the exotic. Going beyond Said’s sense of orientalism, this volume examines the otherness of oneself and the notion of desire for the Other as something different from purely an act of domination and colonization, thereby refusing perceptions of ascendancy. Insomuch as they represent various geographic and cultural groups, the studies lend themselves to a variety of different methodologies and analytical approaches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell, David A.

Powell, Tamara

Über Autor(innen)

David A. Powell is Director of the LGBT Studies Program and Professor of French at Hofstra University. His Queer publications include 21st-Century Gay Culture, ed. (2007); “Je ris, donc j’écris” in Par humour de soi, ed. Sylvie Crinquand (Dijon: Éditions universitaires de Dijon-Kaléidoscopes, 2004, 169–79); and “Les relations aux mots de Paul Verlaine: Ars poetica sort du placard” in Revue Verlaine, 9 (2004, 215–22).

Tamara Powell is Director of Distance Education in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. Her Queer publications include “Looking for Lesbians and Liberation in Shakespeare’s Cross-Dressing Comedies” with Sim Shattuck in The Upstart Crow (2005, 2–33); “Look What Happened Here: North Carolina’s Feminary Collective” in North Carolina Literary Review, 9 (2000, 91–10); and “A Material Queer Bibliography” in The Material Queer: A LesBiGay Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Donald Morton (Boulder: Westview, 1996, 381–392).