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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... reading , Dollimore's ideology enables the return of an undivided subject " capable of knowing his interest ... reader of Foucault . " Criticism must be negative , " Bove observes , " and its negation should be of two sorts : invested ...
... reading , Dollimore's ideology enables the return of an undivided subject " capable of knowing his interest ... reader of Foucault . " Criticism must be negative , " Bove observes , " and its negation should be of two sorts : invested ...
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... reading enabled by Champagne's highly sophis- ticated theoretical apparatus inexorably advances to the detriment of Champagne's competitors in an emergent academic field — Essex Hemphill , bell hooks , Richard Dyer , John Stoltenberg ...
... reading enabled by Champagne's highly sophis- ticated theoretical apparatus inexorably advances to the detriment of Champagne's competitors in an emergent academic field — Essex Hemphill , bell hooks , Richard Dyer , John Stoltenberg ...
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... reading , Champagne accuses hooks of a failure to recognize the " ambivalence " in drag — how it traffics all at once in the degradation as well as the celebration of woman . But the " celebration " of woman regis- tered in Champagne's ...
... reading , Champagne accuses hooks of a failure to recognize the " ambivalence " in drag — how it traffics all at once in the degradation as well as the celebration of woman . But the " celebration " of woman regis- tered in Champagne's ...
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... reading practices ( and horizon of expectations ) out of which he has constructed his academic identity into ( at another register of density ) the equivalent of the ( socially ) Other . At this critical juncture , however , the cul ...
... reading practices ( and horizon of expectations ) out of which he has constructed his academic identity into ( at another register of density ) the equivalent of the ( socially ) Other . At this critical juncture , however , the cul ...
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... readers ' reports from two anonymous readers and Donald Pease . I thank all three for the seriousness with which they treated the initial manuscript , and I am grateful to Pease for writing the foreword . The readers ' comments have ...
... readers ' reports from two anonymous readers and Donald Pease . I thank all three for the seriousness with which they treated the initial manuscript , and I am grateful to Pease for writing the foreword . The readers ' comments have ...
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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.