Confessions of a snow queen: notes on the making of <i>The Attendant</i>

Julien, Isaac

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8705.1994.tb01021.x

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“…Or are the questions of race and slavery to remain always in erasure when s/m representations are discussed in white queer discourse, and thus kept in the closet? 26 Hence, Julien's film breaks two taboos at the same time: it explicitly links BDSM master-and-slave play to race, but in contrast to critics like Wood, 27 it engages with its joyful dimension, too.…”

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Sexual Ghosts and the Whole of History

Woltersdorff¹

2017

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There is a complex historical dimension to desire. Desire can never be isolated from history, nor can history be isolated from desire. Yet for Fredric Jameson, who urges us to ‘always historicize’, desire is of little help when we want to historicize. A historiography that draws on the fascination with history is therefore always suspect of giving a false account of history in its totality. Could an entanglement of pleasure and pain be a way to come to terms with desire in historiography?

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“…The imperialist slave iconography is appropriated and repositioned. 28 This raises the question of the limits of the queering of power relations and how far it can go.…”

Section: V I S a A C J U L I E N ' S T H E A T T E N D A N Tmentioning

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Sexual Ghosts and the Whole of History

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2017

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“…Without what Europeans regarded, and many still regard, as the civilizational attainments that Arabs had-a past tradition of monumental architecture, written languages, historical records, world religions-African men appeared closer to nature and therefore as enticingly, and sometimes threateningly, supersexed. When the memory of massive European enslavement of West African populations is added to this mix, an especially complex erotic field is created-as African American artist Kara Walker (1995), black British filmmaker Isaac Julien (1994), and black gay literary theorists like Robert Reid-Pharr (2001) and Darieck Scott (2010) have begun to explore.…”

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confidence: 99%