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Queer Modernisms (Queer (Sedgwick ("Queer and Now" (Queer as:…

- - - - Queer as: elements of gender or sexuality that are not made or can not be made to conform monolithically (p.8)
      - Queer as: Loose ends where representation, identity, gender, sexuality, and the body do not line up neatly (p.11)
      - "Queer" as a theoretical framework, moving beyond just sexual identity
  - - - Effeminacy
        
        In Orlando: excess, being controlled by emotions, womanizer
        
        "effeminacy deserves to be treated independently because it was for a long time defined as a symptom of an excess of what we would call heterosexual as well as homosexual desire" (92)
      - Pederasty or "Active Sodomy"
        
        "If the man who played an “active” sexual role in sexual intercourse with other males was conventionally masculine in both his appearance and his manner of feeling and acting, if he did not seek to be penetrated by other men, and/or if he also had sexual relations with women, he might not be sick but immoral, not perverted but merely perverse" (95)
      - Friendship or Male Love
        
        there is a "tradition that emphasizes equality, mutuality, and reciprocity in love between men" (99) that would not be considered homosexual in any capacity
      - Passivity or Inversion
        
        "passivity or inversion stamps itself all over a man’s social presentation and identifies him as a spectacularly deviant social type" (89)
  - - - Dandy: disrupts commodification of black life and experiences, rejects ideas of black primitivism by being "fancy," intersection of racial and sexual minorities
      - "the complexities and contradictions of dandyism as symbol and oppositional act make legible not simply the bifurcation of race and sexuality but rather their interrelation" (415)
  - - - 1871- 1922, French writer who wrote one of the longest novels of all time, appreciated by modernist critics and writers
      - "Sodom and Gomorrah"
        
        ideas on the pervasiveness of homosexuality (Kahan-like), inversion, and inner conflict between homosexual desires and rejection of homosexuality
        
        "This scene was not, however, positively comic; it was stamped with a strangeness, or if you like a naturalness, the beauty of which steadily increased" (5)
- - - - Queer Modernism imagines queerness to be utterly pervasive (354)
      - Queerness has just as much to do with gender and sex as sexuality (355)
      - Queer Modernism passed hand to hand (356)
      - Queer Modernism is in perpetual motion (357)
    - - "the academic discipline which aimed to classify sexual deviance" (348)
    - - Representations of "lesbianism as the sexual dissidence par excellence rather than adultry, incest, or other transgression" (350)
- - - - Brian - Queer in a more conventional sense
        
        "...old, queer, unhappy restlessness had begun again with him, that craving for some place strange and different..." (48)
      - Claire - Queer as articulated by Sedgwick
        
        Doesn't truly belong in any racial group due to her every-day passing
        
        "Irene Redfield found it hard to sympathize with this new tenderness, this avowed wearing of Clare's for "my own people." (52)
    - - "I wanted things. I knew I wasn't;t bad-looking and that I could 'pass.' (27)
  - - - Ability to pass changes based on various parameters of agency
      - Butler in Bodies That Matter: “Irene engages many of the same social conventions as Clare….according to Irene, Clare goes too far, passes as white not merely on occasion, but in her, life, and in her marriage.” (124)
- - - - Gender as a performance or as something perceived and decided upon by others
      - "The change of sex, although it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity" pg 138
    - - Orlando's Transformation: Chastity, Purity, Modesty & rejection of this (pg 138-139)
      - woman's duty to get married: "I am a woman....a real woman at last" pg 253
- - - - Story rejects a specific future or points to a future that is inaccessible to someone like Paul
        
        "Paul took one of the blossoms carefully from his coat and scooped a little hole in the snow, where he covered it up" (II)
    - - Self Conscious and Emotional, feeling abnormal or backward
        
        "he could not remember the time when he had not been dreading something" (II)
- - - - "I want to make war (Thunder.) and not make children. No Mister husband you won't give me orders" (207)
    - - "Since my wife is a man…It's right for me to be a woman" (210)
    - - "But I think I'm growing a beard….My bosom is falling off" (208)
      - More Literal when compared to Orlando
- - - - Sedgwick
        
        in margins of society, not fitting fit in: Jenny, Nora, Felix, Guido
        
        "With Guido, you are in the presence of the 'maladjusted'" (124)
      - Conventional: The Doctor as Trans
        
        "I spoke to Tiny O'Toole....I whispered 'What is this thing, Lord?' And I had begun to cry" (141)
    - - "Standing before them in her boy's trousers was Robin. Her pose, startled and broken...she began to bark also, crawling" (179)
    - - "The people in my life who have made my life miserable, coming to me to learn of the degradation and the night" (171)
- - - - Rejecting history as linear
        
        "They choose isolation, turn toward the past, or choose to live in a present disconnected from any larger historical continuum" (8)
      - The Backward Turn
        
        destruction of the past
        
        "to overcome the past, to escape its legacy" (1)
        
        Allegations of Backwardness
        
        "Not only sexual and gender deviants but also women, colonized people, the nonwhite, the disabled, the poor, and criminals were marked as inferior by means of the allegation of backwardness" (6)
      - Choosing isolation -- to disconnect from a larger historical continuum
        
        Embrace association with the abnormal
        
        Sedgwick understanding of Queer
      - Looking Forward while feeling backward
        
        "the losses of the past motivate us and give meaning to our current experience, we are bound to memorialize them" (1)
- - - - Queer disaffiliation from normative societal expectations and desires -- due to exile from sanctioned experineces
      - Reaching out toward a "community that outpaces the hostile language of inversion," (pg 9) toward a different future
      - "Foundling" as a useful analytic tool for queer reading and understanding