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The Revenge of the Gay Nihilist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ladelle McWhorter
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Abstract

Bodies and Pleasures has been characterized as a confessional discourse that manages to subvert confessional practice. Here it is characterized and discussed as an askesis that works to transform confessional practice as it transforms the writer/reader. Two questions emerge through that transformation: (I) How is race (in particular, whiteness) to be lived? (2) What are the possibilities for political subjectivity in the absence of dualism and the intensification of awareness of our normalization?

Type
Symposium
Information
Hypatia , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , Summer 2001 , pp. 115 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by Hypatia, Inc.

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