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Queer Melancholia

Author(s) -

Kris Trujillo

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

representations

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162

H-Index - 33

eISSN - 1533-855X

pISSN - 0734-6018

DOI - 10.1525/rep.2021.153.7.105

Subject(s) - queer , queer theory , lesbian , resistance (ecology) , reading (process) , fetishism , elegy , melancholia , gender studies , sociology , secularity , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , art , psychology , literature , philosophy , political science , social psychology , anthropology , law , religious studies , ecology , poetry , mood , biology

GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, founded in 1993, offers an exemplary site for understanding the rise of queer theory, which, from the start, has struggled with the tension between institutionalization and radical resistance. By situating the emergence of this journal and queer theory in general within the AIDS crisis and the literary tradition of the elegy, this essay offers a reading of conventional academic practices as rituals of queer melancholia that comes to challenge the assumption of queer theory’s secularity.

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