Contents
Issue 24.1 (February 1997)
Special Issue: Queer Utilities: Textual Studies, Theory, Pedagogy, Praxis
Essays
Textual Studies
Editor's Note ..........................................................................................1
Donald E. Hall .......................................................................................2
Introduction: "Queer Works"
Ed Madden...........................................................................................11
Say It With Flowers: The Poetry of Marc-André Raffalovich
Say It With Flowers: The Poetry of Marc-André Raffalovich
Brian Loftus .........................................................................................26
Speaking Silence: The Strategies and Structures of Queer Autobiography
Michael duPlessis and Kathleen Chapman..........................................45
Queercore: The Distinct Identities of Subculture
Queercore: The Distinct Identities of Subculture
Maria Pramaggiore ...............................................................................................................................59
Fishing For Girls: Lesbians in New Queer Cinema
Theory
Jean Walton ........................................................................................................................................125
Introduction: Racialized Lesbian Desire on the Transnational Scene
Ann Pellegrini ......................................................................................................................................83
Women on the Top, Boys on the Side, But Some of Us are Brave: Blackness, Lesbianism and the Visible
Selena Whang ....................................................................................................................................116
The White Heterosexual Couple: On Masculinity, Sadism and Racialized Lesbian Desire
Geeta Patel .........................................................................................................................................133
Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender
Pedagogy
Garry Leonard ....................................................................................................................................152
Introduction: Pedagogy
Barbara Frey Waxman and Eleanor Byington ....................................................................................156
Teaching Paul Monette’s Memoir/Manifesto to Resistant Readers
Helene Meyers ....................................................................................................................................171
To Queer or Not to Queer: That’s Not the Question
Lisa M. Pottie ......................................................................................................................................183
Cross Border Shopping and Niche Marketing: Academic Economies and Lesbian and Gay Studies
Praxis
Garry Leonard .....................................................................................................................................196
Introduction: Praxis
Steven G. Kellman ..............................................................................................................................202
From Oran to San Francisco: Shilts Appropriates Camus
Douglas Eisner ....................................................................................................................................213
Liberating Narrative: AIDS and the Limits of Melodrama in Monette and Weir
Robert D. Full ......................................................................................................................................225
Greece and Homosexual Identity in Edmund White’s "An Oracle
Sheryl Stevenson ................................................................................................................................240
"World War I all over": Writing and Fighting the War in AIDS Poetry
Robert Burns Neveldine ......................................................................................................................263
Skeletons in the Closet: Paradox, Resistance, and the Undead Body of the PWA
Amy Abugo Ongiri ...............................................................................................................................280
We Are Family: Black Nationalism, Black Masculinity, and the Black Gay Cultural Imagination
Molly Anne Rothenburg and Joseph Valentee ....................................................................................295
Performative Chic: The Fantasy of a Performative Politics
Appendices
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................238
Announcements ..................................................................................................................................312
