Guy Mark Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Mark Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
But You’re Not at All like Bertha”: Contemporary (Black) Trans* Studies and Richard Wright’s “Man of All Work”
This essay mines the intersections among contemporary trans* studies, black feminism, and black studies to reexamine Richard Wright’s short story, ‘Man of All Work’ (1961), depicting a black heterosexual man’s efforts to save his home from foreclosure by dressing in his wife’s clothes to find work. Rather than engage these critical traditions in rigid identitarian terms, this essay uses such scholarship to examine how the author’s farcical attemp…
What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions
This essay tackles the controversy of heterosexual-identified women who derive erotic and psychic pleasure from writing and/or reading popular literature in which the central romantic couple is two men. Such narratives are known as M/M fiction and comprise a subgenre within the larger romance market. Criticism directed at this cultural practice often argues that such narratives merely substitute two male bodies for a male/female pair without subs…
Translating (Black) Queerness: Unpacking the Conceptual Linkages Between Racialized Masculinities, Consensual Sex, and the Practice of Torture
This essay argues that the 2005 documentary Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story uses narrative strategies that link it with the 2004 Abu Ghraib abuse scandal. The film tells the story of a Caribbean-born boxer who killed his Cuban-born opponent in the ring for allegedly calling him a homosexual. However, corroborating evidence of Griffith's homosexuality is as scanty in the documentary as it is in the boxer's life. Like the absent sexualities …
Welcome to the Funhouse: Critical Theory and the “Problem” of Interracial Sexuality — T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting’s Black Venus
What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions
This essay tackles the controversy of heterosexual-identified women who derive erotic and psychic pleasure from writing and/or reading popular literature in which the central romantic couple is two men. Such narratives are known as M/M fiction and comprise a subgenre within the larger romance market. Criticism directed at this cultural practice often argues that such narratives merely substitute two male bodies for a male/female pair without subs…
Translating (Black) Queerness: Unpacking the Conceptual Linkages Between Racialized Masculinities, Consensual Sex, and the Practice of Torture
This essay argues that the 2005 documentary Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story uses narrative strategies that link it with the 2004 Abu Ghraib abuse scandal. The film tells the story of a Caribbean-born boxer who killed his Cuban-born opponent in the ring for allegedly calling him a homosexual. However, corroborating evidence of Griffith's homosexuality is as scanty in the documentary as it is in the boxer's life. Like the absent sexualities …
Welcome to the Funhouse: Critical Theory and the “Problem” of Interracial Sexuality — T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting’s Black Venus
Translating (Black) Queerness: Unpacking the Conceptual Linkages Between Racialized Masculinities, Consensual Sex, and the Practice of Torture
This essay argues that the 2005 documentary Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story uses narrative strategies that link it with the 2004 Abu Ghraib abuse scandal. The film tells the story of a Caribbean-born boxer who killed his Cuban-born opponent in the ring for allegedly calling him a homosexual. However, corroborating evidence of Griffith's homosexuality is as scanty in the documentary as it is in the boxer's life. Like the absent sexualities …
What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions
This essay tackles the controversy of heterosexual-identified women who derive erotic and psychic pleasure from writing and/or reading popular literature in which the central romantic couple is two men. Such narratives are known as M/M fiction and comprise a subgenre within the larger romance market. Criticism directed at this cultural practice often argues that such narratives merely substitute two male bodies for a male/female pair without subs…
But You’re Not at All like Bertha”: Contemporary (Black) Trans* Studies and Richard Wright’s “Man of All Work”
This essay mines the intersections among contemporary trans* studies, black feminism, and black studies to reexamine Richard Wright’s short story, ‘Man of All Work’ (1961), depicting a black heterosexual man’s efforts to save his home from foreclosure by dressing in his wife’s clothes to find work. Rather than engage these critical traditions in rigid identitarian terms, this essay uses such scholarship to examine how the author’s farcical attemp…
Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Art history (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works) · Art, Technology, and Culture (1 works)