The evidence of felt intuition: Minority experience, everyday life, and critical speculative knowledge

GLQ

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 641-657

  Harper, Phillip Brian ^a  

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EID: 60949870550     PISSN: 10642684     EISSN: 15279375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10642684-6-4-641     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. See my essay "'Take Me Home': Location, Identity, Transnational Exchange," in Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 125-54
2. rpt., in expanded form, in Callaloo 23 (2000): 461-78.
3. Indeed, my sense that many black people would find my interlocutor's reaction relatively unremarkable is validated by the fact that a parody of such response found its way into an early-1990s solo presentation by the African American performer Alva Rogers. In her 1991 one-woman show, Alva, Rogers hilariously lampooned white people's typically incredulous insistences that the dark-skinned person with whom they have had any degree of engaging intellectual or social interaction cannot possibly "really" be black. Alva was presented on 8 and 9 February 1991 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
4. Quoted in Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz, "Gay Today: The Family: Two Kids and Two Moms," in John Leland, "Shades of Gay," Newsweek, 20 March 2000, 50.
5. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990), 8.
6. In a volume whose objective of providing an "introduction" to "queer theory" may strike us as somewhat paradoxical, given the putative incoherence of the field, Annamarie Jagose actually offers a highly nuanced and helpful account of these various assessments (Queer Theory: An Introduction [New York: New York University Press, 1996], esp. chap. 7, "Queer," 72 - 100). Of particular value among the works Jagose cites are Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, "What Does Queer Theory Teach Us about X?" PMLA 110 (1995): 343-49
7. Alexander Doty, "What Makes Queerness Most?" in Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), xi-xix, esp. xiii-xix
8. Lisa Duggan, "Making It Perfectly Queer," Socialist Review, no. 22 (1992): 11 -31
9. Lee Edelman, "Queer Theory: Unstating Desire," GLQ 2 (1995): 343 -48
10. David M. Halperin, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), esp. 62 -67
11. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993), esp. the introductory essay, "Queer and Now," 1 -20.
12. See, e.g., the trenchant critique along these lines made by Cathy Cohen, "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?" GLQ 3 (1997): 437-65.
13. In characterizing the U.S. sociocultural context as a site of white supremacist hegemony, I am following the lead taken by bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism (New York: Holt, 1995).
14. Phillip Brian Harper, "Eloquence and Epitaph: Black Nationalism and the Homophobic Impulse in Responses to the Death of Max Robinson" Social Text, no. 28 (1991): 68-86.
15. Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin, eds., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 1993)
16. Michael Warner, ed., Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
17. The passage from The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader that I am referencing here incorporates the editors' note that "we have reluctantly chosen not to speak here and in our title of 'queer studies,' despite our own attachment to the term," along with their reasons for that decision (xvii). Jagose glosses what she sees as the passage's "defensive" tone (Queer Theory, 4). Regarding the significance of 1993, I have in mind not only the release during that year of the aforementioned anthologies but also the contemporaneous publication of Sedgwick, Tendencies, and Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (New York: Routledge, 1993), as well as the appearance on the critical scene of GLQ, the defining periodical in the field.
18. See Harper, "Eloquence and Epitaph," Social Text version, 85 -86 n. 19.
19. Phillip Brian Harper, Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 3-38.
20. See Timothy F. Murphy and Suzanne Poirier, eds., Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), 117-39.
21. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1990).
22. See Deborah E. McDowell, "The 'Nameless . . . Shameful Impulse': Sexuality in Larsen's Quicksand and Passing" (1986), in "The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 78-97.
23. The referenced passage from Nella Larsen's fiction appears in the novel Quicksand (1928), in "Quicksand" and "Passing," ed. Deborah E. McDowell (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986), 95.
24. Harper, "Eloquence and Epitaph," Social Text version, 81.