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Review Of Heteronormativity In Eighteenth-Century Literature And Culture, Kevin Bourque
Review Of Heteronormativity In Eighteenth-Century Literature And Culture, Kevin Bourque
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Incomplete Utopianism: Homosexuality In The Dispossessed, Beck O. Adelante
Incomplete Utopianism: Homosexuality In The Dispossessed, Beck O. Adelante
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This paper draws on research about queer theory and history to analyze, through a literary utopian lens, Ursula K. Le Guin’s treatment of homosexuality in her novel The Dispossessed. The novel itself is said to be “an ambiguous utopia,” a description that holds up in an analysis of the other various parts of the novel. When it comes to sexuality, however, Le Guin’s discussion and writing on the topic is notably lacking. It is paid lip service through a brief showing of neutral attitude on the “anarchist” planet in the novel, but never given further analysis or a more …
The Child To Come: Life After The Human Catastrophe By Rebekah Sheldon, Nathan Tebokkel
The Child To Come: Life After The Human Catastrophe By Rebekah Sheldon, Nathan Tebokkel
The Goose
Review of Rebekah Sheldon's The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe.
Reimagining Movements: Towards A Queer Ecology And Trans/Black Feminism, Gabriel Benavente
Reimagining Movements: Towards A Queer Ecology And Trans/Black Feminism, Gabriel Benavente
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples.
In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for a movement that does not romanticize the environment as heteronormative, but …