The Ethics of Marginality: A New Approach to Gay StudiesU of Minnesota Press, 1995 - 219 sider Is celebration of culturally marginalized people by the dominant culture actually benefitting those who are oppressed? Whose stakes are served in such a celebration and how are existing power relations altered? These are some of the questions John Champagne asks in this original and timely critique, which moves gay studies beyond identity politics and the "rights" discourse within which much of contemporary gay studies is positioned. Champagne argues that in the modern West, culturally marginalized people such as gays are not allowed to define and legitimate their own existence outside the framework established for them by the dominant group. To illustrate his premise, Champagne analyzes a number of recent films, including "Paris is Burning", "Looking for Langston" and Marlon Riggs' 1989 video "Tongues Untied" along with gay pornography, using the work of such critics of difference as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Spivak. He calls for the marginalized individual to elaborate a practice of critical self-conduct, working to understand his or her own group as having been produced as an entity along a variety of different registers, only some of which might be said to be marginalized. "The Ethics of Marginality" situates itself at the intersection of English, cultural studies, film studies and gay and lesbian studies. It offers a powerful critique of contemporary approaches to studies of the "other" while promising to establish a ground-breaking and controversial new theoretical model for such studies. |
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... feminist , African American ) critics to the status of privileged " marginals " whose inclusion within the ( liberal humanist ) academy has only resulted in a reaffirmation of liberalism's power to ( re ) construct exemplary individuals ...
... feminist , African American ) critics to the status of privileged " marginals " whose inclusion within the ( liberal humanist ) academy has only resulted in a reaffirmation of liberalism's power to ( re ) construct exemplary individuals ...
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... feminism , Black studies , and gay and lesbian studies , for example , must be to contest the terrain on which " truthful " statements might be made and recognized as such . Insofar as Champagne's choice of adversaries for his ...
... feminism , Black studies , and gay and lesbian studies , for example , must be to contest the terrain on which " truthful " statements might be made and recognized as such . Insofar as Champagne's choice of adversaries for his ...
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... feminist critic who had argued that Jennie Livingston's representation of gay Black males ' exagger- ated and spectacular efforts to impersonate displays of white femininity sub- tly enforced the cultural power of the white woman who ...
... feminist critic who had argued that Jennie Livingston's representation of gay Black males ' exagger- ated and spectacular efforts to impersonate displays of white femininity sub- tly enforced the cultural power of the white woman who ...
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... feminist scholarship has emphasized the way that patriarchal phallocentric culture necessarily depends on the figure of the " castrated " woman , the figuration of the female body as lack coming to re - present the absence that ...
... feminist scholarship has emphasized the way that patriarchal phallocentric culture necessarily depends on the figure of the " castrated " woman , the figuration of the female body as lack coming to re - present the absence that ...
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... Feminism , in its Lacanian guise , has attempted to deploy the concept of castration " positively , " sug- gesting , for example , that meaning is a fiction and identity impossible . These two critical interventions do not focus on the ...
... Feminism , in its Lacanian guise , has attempted to deploy the concept of castration " positively , " sug- gesting , for example , that meaning is a fiction and identity impossible . These two critical interventions do not focus on the ...
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The Subject andin Ideology | 5 |
Gay Pornography and Nonproductive Expenditure | 32 |
AnthropologyUnending Search for What Is Utterly Precious Race Class and Tongues Untied | 61 |
I Just Wanna Be a Rich Somebody Experience Common Sense and Paris Is Burning | 92 |
Conclusion On the Uses and Disadvantages of a History of the OtherAn Untimely Meditation | 133 |
Notes | 173 |
Bibliography | 213 |
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Side 2 - With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out.
Side xi - The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state, and from the state's institutions, but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state.