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Item Open Access 'ECHO'(FOUR QUARTERS, 1983) Wiegman, RItem Open Access Eve’s Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself(Differences, 2015-01-26) Wiegman, RResponding to the theme of the special issue, Queer Theory without Antinormativity, “Eve’s Triangles” returns to the work of one of queer theory’s most important foundational figures to consider critical sensibilities that are incompatible with the dyadic approach to power and politics now institutionalized in queer studies under the rubric of antinormativity. By focusing on Sedgwick’s appetite for incoherence, the double bind, and nondialectical understandings of contradiction, this essay studies the elegant and cogent model of reading found in Sedgwick’s work in order to value queer critical intuitions that have been subordinated to antinormativity’s allure.Item Open Access In the margins with the argonauts(Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 2018-01-02) Wiegman, RReaders in love with Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts have often praised her ability to use the analytic capacities and citational resources of critical theory to advance her personal narrative about queer sex and kinship. This essay takes stock of Nelson’s genre-bending conventions by reading the visual organization of the printed book against its digital copy in order to deliberate on questions of materiality, authorship, and identity.Item Open Access Introduction: Antinormativity's Queer Conventions(differences, 2015-01-26) Wiegman, R; Wilson, EACan queer theory proceed without an allegiance to antinormativity? The introduction to this special issue establishes the value of this question by staging an encounter with the most widely held assumption in queer theory today: that the political value of the field lies in its antinormative commitments. The first section of this introduction demonstrates how profoundly the history of queer theorizing has been shaped by an antinormative sensibility, one that has organized the multiple and at times discordant itineraries of analysis that comprise the queer theoretical archive into a field-forming synthesis. In part 2, the authors offer a more studied consideration of the character of norms. By articulating the difference between a norm and the terms that often define it—domination, homogenization, exclusion, hegemony, identity, or more colloquially, the familiar, status quo, or routine—this section demonstrates the importance of renewing queer theoretical attention to the conceptual and political particularity of normativity as a distinct object of inquiry. The authors’ aim is not to dismiss the political agenda that antinormativity has come to represent for queer inquiry, but to channel some of the field’s energies toward analyzing the critical authority it now wields. This entails promoting scholarship that not only rethinks the meaning of norms, normalization, and the normal but that also imagines new ways to approach the politics of queer criticism altogether. In the final section, the authors describe the specific contribution of each of the volume’s essays to this endeavor.Item Open Access Introduction: Autotheory theory(Arizona Quarterly, 2020-03-01) Wiegman, RItem Open Access Introduction: Now, not now(Differences, 2019-01-01) Wiegman, RItem Open Access Loss, Hope: The University in Ruins, Again(FEMINIST STUDIES, 2022) Wiegman, RItem Open Access Sex and Negativity, Or What Queer Theory has for You(Cultural Critique, 2016) Wiegman, RItem Open Access The Ends of New Americanism(New Literary History, 2011) Wiegman, RThis essay responds to the New Literary History editorial query to assess the "state of American Studies" by arguing that such efforts of assessment are the state of the field. While scholars today applaud or lament the field's transnational turn, Wiegman contextualizes it in the context of long standing scholarly debate over the shape of Americanist knowledge. By reading the discourse of the state of the field as a key characteristic of the New American Studies, Wiegman explores what is at stake for practitioners in a field devoted to self-description and perpetual reinvention. © 2011 Project MUSE®.Item Open Access The Times We're In: Queer Feminist Criticism and the Reparative 'Turn'(Feminist Theory, 2013) Wiegman, RThis article examines the reparative turn in current queer feminist scholarship by tracking its twin interest in the study of affect and time. By foregrounding Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's influential critique of what she called paranoid reading, I am interested in the ways that various critics - Ann Cvetkovich, Heather Love, and Elizabeth Freeman in particular - take up the call for reparative reading by using the temporal frameworks of the everyday, backward feeling, and queer time to reparative ends. In the process, I consider the reparative work being done to reclaim Sedgwick as a major thinker for queer feminist concerns, and speculate on the attraction, in a time of declining economic and cultural support for the interpretative humanities, of a critical practice that seeks to love and nurture its objects of study. © The Author(s) 2014.