Michael Warner (1) (1958–)
Autore di The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
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- Nome legale
- Warner, Michael David
- Data di nascita
- 1958-09-09
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- Johns Hopkins University (PhD|English|1985)
- Attività lavorative
- professor (Yale University: Seymour H. Knox Professor of English, Professor of American Studies, English Department Chair)
- Organizzazioni
- Yale University
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 1,348
- Popolarità
- #19,089
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 31
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 1
The problem with his argument is that it takes as a given that there is such a thing as queer or even gay culture, and that certain things are endemic to that culture. The reality is that there are numerous queer cultures and subcultures, some of them delimited by gender (e.g., stereotypically lesbian culture is certainly distinct from stereotypically gay culture), and other by other factors (e.g., queer punk). To suggest that certain features of what he terms gay or queer culture should be embraced by everyone is to assume the existence of a uniform way of being queer.
Moreover, Warner fails to address the crucial question of whether, even assuming that such a uniform queer culture exists, queer culture can be extricated from the oppression that created it. Counterculture cannot exist absent the existence of a "mainstream" culture -- Yiddish came into being as the result of the oppression of the Jewish people and their segregation into ghettos; likewise, much of what we now conceive of as "gay culture" or "queer culture" is the product of the marginalization of queer people. Yet Warner never struggles with whether embracing this legacy of oppression is problematic.… (altro)