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phantomwise's review
2.0
I respect Halberstam a lot but this academic linguistic circlejerk is exhausting. I've gotten to the point where I roll my eyes on reflex whenever I see words like modality or posttemporal. Ridiculous.
lizawall's review
queer temporality, queer temporality, queer temporality! i am glad somebody wrote about le tigre hot topic.
rachelnevada's review
challenging
informative
I'm currently on a queer temporality kick and am constantly thinking about the way my queerness impacts the ways I experience time (and, as always, I am hungry for more information).
In a Queer Time and Place was one of the few queer temporality books easily available on Libby from my libraries and so I checked it out. As far as the insights in lends to both queer time (and space), I found the first and final chapters had the most theorizing. The intervening chapters brushed up on queerness but had other focuses: Chapter 2 focuses on the media that emerged from Brandon Teena's death, Chapter 3 focuses on uncovering Brandon Teena's personal experience separate from these media timelines, Chapter 4 focuses on film and what a transgender gaze might look like, Chapter 5 focuses on trans bodies in art, and Chapter 6 focuses on how drag kings have influenced contemporary male comedy.
There are tidbits on queer time (and space!) that I have secreted away for later, but overall Halberstam's book feels like a collection of in depth queer theory explorations of art, music, and media that all have a queer relationship to time and space, rather than an in depth exploration of time itself.
In a Queer Time and Place was one of the few queer temporality books easily available on Libby from my libraries and so I checked it out. As far as the insights in lends to both queer time (and space), I found the first and final chapters had the most theorizing. The intervening chapters brushed up on queerness but had other focuses: Chapter 2 focuses on the media that emerged from Brandon Teena's death, Chapter 3 focuses on uncovering Brandon Teena's personal experience separate from these media timelines, Chapter 4 focuses on film and what a transgender gaze might look like, Chapter 5 focuses on trans bodies in art, and Chapter 6 focuses on how drag kings have influenced contemporary male comedy.
There are tidbits on queer time (and space!) that I have secreted away for later, but overall Halberstam's book feels like a collection of in depth queer theory explorations of art, music, and media that all have a queer relationship to time and space, rather than an in depth exploration of time itself.
adammm's review
3.0
Read partially while on jury duty (sigh). Quite dated but fascinating - particularly the chapters on Brandon Teena. Personally I think that the most valuable part of this book is Halberstam's very clearly signposted definitions of concepts/phrases such as "queer," "queer time," "queer space," and "queer archives." Halberstam is an astonishingly clear, coherent writer - unusual in the realm of queer theory (that's right Judith Butler, I'm talking to you). Useful text if you're interested in queer subcultures, trans studies, queer temporality/space; but not so useful if you're looking for discourse on trans/queer POC, of which there is next to none. That being said, this book is, what, almost 20 years old? For what it's trying to do I find it fairly successful.