Patricia Stuelke
Biographic Data
| ID | 805216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Stuelke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Stuelke |
| SIGNATURE | STUELKE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0879-2818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist Conspiracies, Security Aunties, and Other Surveillance State Fictions
This article investigates two recent fictional representations of the feminized US surveillance state and its “security feminists” (Grewal), with an eye towards limning what visions of social transformation and political life such representations make possible. It first examines Gish Jen’s 2020 novel The Resisters, considering how the novel’s characterization of the US surveillance state as a snoopy suspicious Aunt maintains American liberal fant…
Hemispheric Horror, Neofeudal Empire, and the International Women's Strike
This essay proposes that recent texts of hemispheric horror, like those sentimental fictions on which Amy Kaplan turned her fierce analytic gaze, offer the field of American studies objects to think with as it grapples with the difficulties of conceptualizing US settler colonial capitalist empire in the present, particularly as neoliberal capitalist empire takes on neofeudal aspects. As the field searches for analytic frames that might allow scho…
Reparative Reading and the Drug Wars' Queer Children
This article posits that recent reparative responses to the opioid crisis are consistent with a longer history of reparative hermeneutics conditioned by the drug wars in the Americas, ones that attempt to repair but often reinforce the biopolitical logics produced by the artificial divide between licit and illicit drugs, a distinction that facilitates both racial and imperialist policing and racial capitalist profiteering. The humanities' postcri…
The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique
Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn's hidden history in the failed struggle…
Writing Refugee Crisis in the Age of Amazon: Lost Children Archive's Reenactment Play
This essay analyzes Valeria Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive's attempt to imagine anti-imperialist solidarity aesthetics in a moment of the increasing imbrication of the US literary sphere and settler colonial capitalist surveillance of the US-Mexico border, as well as the nonprofit care regime that has arisen to oppose and ameliorate its effects. Because these structures converge around overt and subterranean investments in settler co…
The Queer Optimism of Jessie Tarbox Beals' Greenwich Village Postcards
This article analyzes the white female camp sensibility of a group of postcard advertisements of Greenwich Village women shop proprietors that photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals created and marketed around 1917. In their display of Greenwich Village bohemian female entrepreneurs' performative play between person and thing, Beals' postcards capture white women's repudiation of abstracted sentimental womanhood in favor of a performative embodied iden…
Times When Greater Disciplines Are Born”: The Zora Neale Hurston Revival and the Neoliberal Transformation of the Caribbean
This essay reframes the recovery and canonization of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) in the late 1970s and early 1980s in relation to the US economic restructuring and military invasion of the Caribbean in that same period. Focusing on Paule Marshall’s novel Praisesong for the Widow (1983) and Audre Lorde’s biomythography Zami (1982), the essay demonstrates how US black feminist literature used Hurston’s work as a s…
The Reparative Politics of Central America Solidarity Movement Culture
This essay examines the affective structures of the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s. Through an analysis of movement photography, memoir, and Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Bean Trees , the essay shows how the 1980s Central America solidarity movement was characterized by a disillusionment with the "hermeneutics of suspicion" and a valorization of sentimental reparative modes that emphasized affective connections between US and C…
The Reparative Politics of Central America Solidarity Movement Culture
This essay examines the affective structures of the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s. Through an analysis of movement photography, memoir, and Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Bean Trees , the essay shows how the 1980s Central America solidarity movement was characterized by a disillusionment with the "hermeneutics of suspicion" and a valorization of sentimental reparative modes that emphasized affective connections between US and C…
Writing Refugee Crisis in the Age of Amazon: Lost Children Archive's Reenactment Play
This essay analyzes Valeria Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive's attempt to imagine anti-imperialist solidarity aesthetics in a moment of the increasing imbrication of the US literary sphere and settler colonial capitalist surveillance of the US-Mexico border, as well as the nonprofit care regime that has arisen to oppose and ameliorate its effects. Because these structures converge around overt and subterranean investments in settler co…
Reparative Reading and the Drug Wars' Queer Children
This article posits that recent reparative responses to the opioid crisis are consistent with a longer history of reparative hermeneutics conditioned by the drug wars in the Americas, ones that attempt to repair but often reinforce the biopolitical logics produced by the artificial divide between licit and illicit drugs, a distinction that facilitates both racial and imperialist policing and racial capitalist profiteering. The humanities' postcri…
The Queer Optimism of Jessie Tarbox Beals' Greenwich Village Postcards
This article analyzes the white female camp sensibility of a group of postcard advertisements of Greenwich Village women shop proprietors that photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals created and marketed around 1917. In their display of Greenwich Village bohemian female entrepreneurs' performative play between person and thing, Beals' postcards capture white women's repudiation of abstracted sentimental womanhood in favor of a performative embodied iden…
Times When Greater Disciplines Are Born”: The Zora Neale Hurston Revival and the Neoliberal Transformation of the Caribbean
This essay reframes the recovery and canonization of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) in the late 1970s and early 1980s in relation to the US economic restructuring and military invasion of the Caribbean in that same period. Focusing on Paule Marshall’s novel Praisesong for the Widow (1983) and Audre Lorde’s biomythography Zami (1982), the essay demonstrates how US black feminist literature used Hurston’s work as a s…
The Reparative Politics of Central America Solidarity Movement Culture
This essay examines the affective structures of the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s. Through an analysis of movement photography, memoir, and Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Bean Trees , the essay shows how the 1980s Central America solidarity movement was characterized by a disillusionment with the "hermeneutics of suspicion" and a valorization of sentimental reparative modes that emphasized affective connections between US and C…
The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique
Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn's hidden history in the failed struggle…
Writing Refugee Crisis in the Age of Amazon: Lost Children Archive's Reenactment Play
This essay analyzes Valeria Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive's attempt to imagine anti-imperialist solidarity aesthetics in a moment of the increasing imbrication of the US literary sphere and settler colonial capitalist surveillance of the US-Mexico border, as well as the nonprofit care regime that has arisen to oppose and ameliorate its effects. Because these structures converge around overt and subterranean investments in settler co…
Feminist Conspiracies, Security Aunties, and Other Surveillance State Fictions
This article investigates two recent fictional representations of the feminized US surveillance state and its “security feminists” (Grewal), with an eye towards limning what visions of social transformation and political life such representations make possible. It first examines Gish Jen’s 2020 novel The Resisters, considering how the novel’s characterization of the US surveillance state as a snoopy suspicious Aunt maintains American liberal fant…
Hemispheric Horror, Neofeudal Empire, and the International Women's Strike
This essay proposes that recent texts of hemispheric horror, like those sentimental fictions on which Amy Kaplan turned her fierce analytic gaze, offer the field of American studies objects to think with as it grapples with the difficulties of conceptualizing US settler colonial capitalist empire in the present, particularly as neoliberal capitalist empire takes on neofeudal aspects. As the field searches for analytic frames that might allow scho…
Reparative Reading and the Drug Wars' Queer Children
This article posits that recent reparative responses to the opioid crisis are consistent with a longer history of reparative hermeneutics conditioned by the drug wars in the Americas, ones that attempt to repair but often reinforce the biopolitical logics produced by the artificial divide between licit and illicit drugs, a distinction that facilitates both racial and imperialist policing and racial capitalist profiteering. The humanities' postcri…
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