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'Since No Expressions Do' : = Queer Tools for Studying Literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'Since No Expressions Do' :/
Reminder of title:	Queer Tools for Studying Literature.
Author:	Calado, Filipa da Gama.
Description:	1 online resource (210 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-09, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-09B.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798381849844

'Since No Expressions Do' : = Queer Tools for Studying Literature.
Calado, Filipa da Gama.

'Since No Expressions Do' :Queer Tools for Studying Literature. - 1 online resource (210 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-09, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores how digital methods and tools for studying text engage with queer literature. I critique digital methods and tools by posing computation, where textual data is cleaned and structured for electronic processing, against the complexity of queer subjecthood and affects expressed in textual style, form, and voice. While tools like quantitative text analysis, for example, transform, and necessarily reduce, qualitative elements of gender and sexuality into numerical data such as word frequencies or concordances, I argue that this reduction opens up possibilities for interpreting the formal qualities of queer literature. Just as digital formats transform and manipulate text into data, so do literary forms figure queer identity and experience in narrative and figurative structures. Reading formal expressions of queerness through technology, such as data formats and programming logics, surfaces the structures and constraints of non-normative identity formations and desires. In bringing these forms to the surface, technology also suggests some residue of meaning that cannot be captured by the tool. This elusive aspect constitutes queerness as something at once tangible and slippery.Besides offering new digital procedures for studying literary material, this work also offers a crucial critique of the way Queer Studies theorizes the relationship between identity and embodiment. The order of chapters in my dissertation poses a trajectory for the field of Queer queer identity. This critique of Queer Studies and its implicit whiteness strategically forecloses queerness as something, as Jose Esteban Munoz argues, "not yet here," but perpetually on the horizon. For this project, queerness remains as a target beyond reach, as a fount for future subversions, exemplified with the term "queer" itself, which Judith Butler says is "never fully owned, but always and only redeployed, twisted, queered from a prior usage and in the direction of urgent and expanding political purposes".

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798381849844Subjects--Topical Terms:

555406
English literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Black Feminist StudiesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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