Queer Roots for the Diaspora Ghosts in the Family Tree

• Tác giả: Jarrod Landin Hayes
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0472053162
• ISBN-13: 978-0472073160
• ISBN-13: 978-0472904143
• Thông tin xuất bản: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 374463
• Chủ đề: 1. Caribbean Studies; 2. Jewish Studies; 3. Literary Studies; 4. Sexuality Studies; 5. Gender studies, gender groups

Tóm tắt

 Employing rootedness as a way of understanding identity has increasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques. Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to police identity through a politics of purity-excluding anyone who doesn't share the same narrative. Theoretically, a critique of essentialism has led to a suspicion against essence and origins regardless of their political implications. The central argument of Queer Roots for the Diaspora is that, in spite of these debates, ultimately the desire for roots contains the "roots" of its own deconstruction. The book considers alternative root narratives that acknowledge the impossibility of returning to origins with any certainty
  welcome sexual diversity
  acknowledge their own fictionality
  reveal that even a single collective identity can be rooted in multiple ways
  and create family trees haunted by the queer others patrilineal genealogy seems to marginalize.