Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer Theory / Edition 1

by Ian Barnard, William J. Spurlin

Overview

One of the first extended and theoretically informed investigations of queer theory’s racial inscription, Queer Race understands race as inextricably sexualized, as sexuality is always racially marked. The book critically and playfully explores intellectual and political deployments of the term «queer», gay pornographic videos about South Africa, contemporary literary representations of interracial gay desire, the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, and Jeffrey Dahmer’s criminal trial. Through these explorations, Queer Race charts a framework for understanding the «race» of queer theory that both tests queer theory’s limits and suggests its future inter-relations with anti-racist work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820470887
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	10/22/2004
Series:	Gender, Sexuality, and Culture , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	148
Sales rank:	1,122,181
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Author: Ian Barnard was born and raised in South Africa, where he studied at the University of the Witwatersrand. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, San Diego. His previous publications include many scholarly articles on queer theory, pedagogy, and South African literature and politics. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge.

Table of Contents

	Series Editor's Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
Chapter 1	Introducing a Queer Theory for a Queer Race	1
Chapter 2	Whiteness as Gayness: The Men of South Africa	19
Chapter 3	Representing Race in the Discourse of Desire	35
Chapter 4	Gloria Anzaldua's Queer Mestisaje	63
Chapter 5	Jeff Dahmer	80
Chapter 6	Your Picture Here	101
	Notes	115
	Works Cited	135