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Revolutionary bodies traces a style of homoerotic writing in twentieth-century and contemporary Irish fiction. As this study demonstrates, writers in that tradition explored a broad spectrum of cultural and political concerns, while experimenting with the conventions of literary realism. We witness how, in these various works, the longing for the male body is insistently associated with utopian political desire. Developing a series of innovative readings, the argument proceeds through three author-centred chapters (Brendan Behan; John Broderick; Colm Tóibín) followed by two chapters on Irish gay fiction and ‘Celtic Tiger’ fiction. The latter two chapters focus on work by Keith Ridgway, Jamie O’Neill, Micheál Ó Conghaile and Barry McCrea, among others. Revolutionary Bodies prompts us to reconsider the relationship between aesthetics, literature and sexual liberation.
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undergraduate courses, for which the first course reader, the Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader , was published in 1993. The designating terminology for this field is fluid and shifting, driven by a desire to be as inclusive as possible. At present (towards the end of the second decade of the millennium) the most-used terms are acronyms like LGBT, denoting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, or LGBTQ, with the added ‘Q’ denoting either ‘Queer’ or ‘Questioning’. Usually a noun follows, such as ‘community’ or ‘studies’ or ‘theory’. LGBT studies designates a potentially huge
in an underworld of heterodoxies. Prefacing the 1998 ‘Transgender Issue’ of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies , she writes: I named myself queer in 1990. In doing so, I felt I could complete the statement ‘I am a —’ for the first time in my life without adding any caveats. The term allowed me to align
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being activists to academics. According to Sally Munt, ‘anyone working in lesbian and gay studies is assumed to be a protagonist’ and this ‘critical naiveté’ serves to continually marginalise lesbian and gay studies.18 Thus the shift into the academy might have been a way out of the stasis of the Left, but at the same time it has reintegrated the gay movement into a respectable society where upon it could once more be marginalised. 8 Gay men and the Left in post-war Britain There have been recent moves to problematise this ‘personal turn’. New accounts of the 1960s
ML). 2 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. 1. According to the Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies , ‘by the start of the twentieth century there was in widespread circulation a proliferation of medical, legal, literary, and psychological discourses for which the homo/hetero binary was axiomatic’; see Sasha Roseneil, ‘The heterosexual/homosexual binary: Past, present, and future’, Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2002), www.omnilogos.com/2011/06/15/the
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, technology, and socialist-feminisms in the late twentieth century’, in Simians, Cyborgs and Women (New York: Routledge, 1991) , 152. 2 K. Barad, ‘Transmaterialities: Trans/matter/realities and queer political imaginings’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies , 21:2–3 (2015): 387–422 , 410. 3 Haraway, ‘A cyborg manifesto’, 154. 4 This is according to a June 2019 update by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which meticulously and comprehensively tracks US drone strikes and other military actions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and