To browse Academia. This article notes the historical tendency in Anglo-American queer theory to draw extensively on French thought to formulate its theoretical positions and explores the extent to which this tendency is manifest in more recent writings which take Anglo-American queer thought in a new direction. It is suggested that French queer theory should not be seen as a consumer of Anglo-American queer theorization, but rather as its critical interlocutor.
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Need an account? Click here to sign up. Post-Queer Un Made in France? Claire Boyle. Post-Queer Un Made in France?. Paragraph, 35 2 , Take down policy The University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright please contact openaccess ed. Download date: CLAIRE BOYLE Abstract: This article notes the historical tendency in Anglo-American queer theory to draw extensively on French thought to formulate its theoretical positions and explores the extent to which this tendency is manifest in more recent writings which take Anglo-American queer thought in a new direction.
Keywords: post-queer, queer theory, Deleuze, Guattari, the virtual, universalism Totemic American queer theorist Judith Butler is famously reluctant to readily allow herself to be slotted into stable identity categories. Early in her career she outed herself as a lesbian, only to question what being a lesbian means; more recent proclamations of her butch identity are similarly undercut by temporal distancing.
Many of Paragraph At least, the first wave of it has been, but it does not necessarily follow that this remains the case. Today, American queer theory no longer looks to the canonical queer thinkers I have cited above to power its ideas. To fully understand the extent to which a traffic in thinking between France and the US lies behind the development of queer thought on both sides of the Atlantic, it is important to look beyond the canonical names associated with the first wave of American queer theory to consider more recent State-side formulations of the queer project articulated by a new generation of scholars.
