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Record Nr.

UNISA996418942803316

Autore

Linke Kai

Titolo

Good White Queers? : Racism and Whiteness in Queer U.S. Comics / / Kai Linke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

3-8394-4917-0

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 pages)

Collana

Queer Studies ; 23

Disciplina

741.535266

Soggetti

Queer comic books, strips, etc

Queer theory

Racism

White people - Race identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 What to Expect in this Book: A Very Brief Overview -- 1.2 A Few Words on Formal Decisions -- 1.3 How I Came to Write this Book -- 2 THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS -- 2.1 Why Comics? -- 2.2 Unequal Distributions of Power, Rights, and Resources -- 2.3 A Brief History of Intersectional LGBTIQ Politics in the U.S. -- 3 ALISON BECHDEL'S DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR: A WHITE FANTASY OF A POST-RACIAL LESBIAN COMMUNITY -- 3.1 A "Chronicle of Lesbian Culture and History" -- 3.2 A Multicultural Universe with Whiteness at Its Center -- 3.3 Armchair Anti-Racism: A Post-Racial Lesbian Community in a Racist Society -- 3.4 White Lesbians as a Better Kind of White -- 3.5 Political Consequences of Dykes' Armchair Anti-Racism -- 3.6 Conclusion: When Fantasy Is Read as Fact -- 4 HOWARD CRUSE'S STUCK RUBBER BABY: HOW 'GAY IS THE NEW BLACK' DISCOURSES SHAPE THE WHITE GAY IMAGINARY -- 4.1 A Groundbreaking Work -- 4.2 A Window Seat to History? -- 4.3 'Gay Is the New Black:' A Dominant Discourse -- 4.4 Conservative Critiques -- 4.5 Common Intersectional Critiques -- 4.6 Further Intersectional Critiques -- 4.7 Conclusion: Stuck in a White Fantasy -- 5 JAIME CORTEZ'S SEXILE/SEXILIO:



UNLEARNING HOMONATIONALISM AND DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSES -- 5.1 "Decentering Whiteness" -- 5.2 Disidentifications with Homonationalist Discourses -- 5.3 Centering Resilience -- 5.4 By Way of Conclusion: Reading Sexile/Sexilio from a Place of (Relative) Privilege -- 6 CONCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF WHITE LGBTIQ SELF-REPRESENTATIONS -- List of Works Cited

Sommario/riassunto

How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.