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On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility

On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility

Martínez, Ernesto Javier

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 080478339X
ISBN13: 9780804783392
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 31 2012
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards

On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. From James Baldwin's 1960s novel Another Country to Margaret Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy, these works all exhibit a preoccupation with intelligibility, or the labor of making sense of oneself and of making sense to others. In their efforts to make sense, these writers and artists argue against merely being accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to confront epistemic injustice--an injustice that affects people in their capacity as knowers and as communities worthy of being known.

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