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Queer externalities : hazardous encounters in American culture
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Queer externalities : hazardous encounters in American culture

Author: W C Harris
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009.
Series: SUNY series in queer politics and cultures.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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"In television shows such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and movies like Brokeback Mountain, as well as gay young adult novels and other media coverage of queer people - including the outing of several prominent Republicans - queer lives are becoming more visible in the media and in U.S. culture more generally. How does the increasing visibility of queer subjects within mainstream culture affect possibilities  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: W C Harris
ISBN: 9781438427515 1438427514 1438427522 9781438427522
OCLC Number: 275151070
Description: x, 251 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: A hazard of queer fortunes --
At the end of the rainbow : Q-topian literature and the lure of apolitical identities --
"In my day it used to be called a limp wrist" : flip-floppers, nelly boys, and homophobic political rhetoric --
Queer eye on the prize : homo hands and the activism of camping --
Broke(n)back faggots : Hollywood gives queers a Hobson's choice --
The IMs are coming from inside the house : recruitment, the closet, and the right --
Conclusion: Like a faggot from the ashes.
Series Title: SUNY series in queer politics and cultures.
Responsibility: W. C. Harris.

Abstract:

"In television shows such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and movies like Brokeback Mountain, as well as gay young adult novels and other media coverage of queer people - including the outing of several prominent Republicans - queer lives are becoming more visible in the media and in U.S. culture more generally. How does the increasing visibility of queer subjects within mainstream culture affect possibilities for radical and transformative queer activism?" "Provocative and challenging, W. C. Harris argues that rather than simply being a cause for celebration, this "mainstreaming" of queer lives may have as many negative effects as positive ones for contemporary gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Harris builds on the work of queer and political theorists such as Eve Sedgwick, David Halperin, Michael Warner, and Wendy Brown to examine the side effects that can be generated when queers assimilate, and argues for a reinvigorated queer essentialism in order to claim a separate and visible political and activist space within U.S. culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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