Benjamin Kahan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 387165 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Benjamin Kahan |
| PRENOMES | Benjamin |
| SOBRENOME | Kahan |
| ASSINATURA | KAHAN B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | English Department Louisiana State University 260 Allen Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7054-9125 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies …
Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Critical Response I
How to Do the History of Sexual Science
This introduction maps the ways in which sexual scientific thought circulated during the fin de siècle, tracing the interconnections between and breaks in the global circuits of sexological thought and how this circuitry continues to structure sexuality in the present. In so doing, Kahan and LaFleur position their approach and that of the special issue as a whole within the larger field of sexology, placing it in more robust dialogue with sexuali…
Angel on a Freight Train
In the annals of the history of American sexuality, few diaries feature records of nineteenth-century sexual practice. Or if they do, such accounts are generally not extensive or elaborated, as when the diary of Mary Pierce Poor, the wife of the founder of the company that would become Standard and Poor's, denotes the beginning of her menstrual cycle with a “+” and sexual intercourse with her husband with an “x” (Janet Farrell Brodle, Contracepti…
The unexpected American origins of sexology and sexual science
In spite of the fact that the term ‘sexology’ was popularized in the United States by Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard and that the term ‘sexual science’—which is usually attributed to Iwan Bloch as ‘Sexualwissenschaft’—was actually coined by the American phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler in 1852, the archives of American sexology have received scant attention in the period prior to Alfred Kinsey. In my article, I explore the role of Transcendent…
Ray Johnson's Anti-Archive
This essay explores the work of “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson, contending that his complex relationship to sadomasochism provides a key switch point for Pop’s sexual and racial imaginary. In the register of sex, Johnson’s sadomasochism contests the stability of the relationship between homosexuality and Pop (theorized by Kenneth E. Silver, Jonathan D. Katz, Richard Meyer, and Douglas Crimp), offering instead a queerer objec…
On Ray Johnson's Sexuality, Loves, and Friendships
This interview was conducted with one of the closest friends of the visual artist Ray Johnson, the late photographer and writer William S. Wilson. Johnson was a fixture of the New York downtown art scene in the late 1940, 1950s, and 1960s. He was influenced by Abstract Expressionists and Pop artists alike, but was a true original, widely considered to be the founder of “mail art” and also an important collagist and performance artist. Wilson help…
Conjectures on the Sexual World-System
This article brings together world-systems analysis, which explores how the world's capitalist markets became globally integrated, and sexuality studies for the first time in order to examine how the homo/hetero binary came to integrate and govern sexual organization throughout much of the world. Zooming out from the metropolitan and national frames that have dominated sexual historiography, this article operates at a different scale and order of…
Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (1844)
"With Heinrich Kaan's book we have then what could be called the date of birth, or in any case the date of the emergence, of sexuality and sexual aberrations in the psychiatric field."¿Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975Heinrich Kaan’s fascinating work—part medical treatise, part sexual taxonomy, part activist statement, and part anti-onanist tract—takes us back to the origins of sexology. He links the sexual i…
On Making Sense
Book Review| June 01 2015 On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility. By Martinez, Ernesto Javier. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press. 2013. xiii, 200 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $22.95.Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled. By Cobb, Michael. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2012. xii, 227 pp. …
Antediluvian Sex
Reading Countée Cullen's little known 1940 text The Lost Zoo (that imagines the animals left behind by the Biblical flood), this essay recovers the queerness of uplift discourses in the Harlem Renaissance. I argue that Cullen draws on the queer resources of the Noah story and its narration in Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno (1939) in ways that temporally remap the periodization of the Harlem Renaissance. I call this process "collective queer re…
Celibacies
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warh…
The Feeling of Kinship
Reviewed by: The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy Benjamin Kahan (bio) The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy, by David L. Eng. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. 268 pp. $23.95 paper. ISBN: 0822347326. David Eng’s The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy is a bold and ambitious book that attends to the ways in which queerness and t…
The Drama of Marriage
Reviewed by: The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present Benjamin Kahan The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present. By John M. Clum. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011; pp. 246. Animated by the recent political debates around gay marriage, John Clum’s recent book takes up “the paradox that, during the twentieth century, many of the most commercially and artisti…
The Viper's Traffic-Knot
This essay charts a history and theory of celibacy. Redressing the scholarly and popular tendency to read celibacy as "closeted" homosexuality, I disarticulate the history of celibacy from the history of homosexuality. Despite Michel Foucault's much-recited lesson that "there is not one but many silences," queer theory continues to read celibacy as the sign of another practice: homosexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" or the "impo…
Celibacies
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warh…
Conjectures on the Sexual World-System
This article brings together world-systems analysis, which explores how the world's capitalist markets became globally integrated, and sexuality studies for the first time in order to examine how the homo/hetero binary came to integrate and govern sexual organization throughout much of the world. Zooming out from the metropolitan and national frames that have dominated sexual historiography, this article operates at a different scale and order of…
The Viper's Traffic-Knot
This essay charts a history and theory of celibacy. Redressing the scholarly and popular tendency to read celibacy as "closeted" homosexuality, I disarticulate the history of celibacy from the history of homosexuality. Despite Michel Foucault's much-recited lesson that "there is not one but many silences," queer theory continues to read celibacy as the sign of another practice: homosexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" or the "impo…
The unexpected American origins of sexology and sexual science
In spite of the fact that the term ‘sexology’ was popularized in the United States by Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard and that the term ‘sexual science’—which is usually attributed to Iwan Bloch as ‘Sexualwissenschaft’—was actually coined by the American phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler in 1852, the archives of American sexology have received scant attention in the period prior to Alfred Kinsey. In my article, I explore the role of Transcendent…
Critical Response I
How to Do the History of Sexual Science
This introduction maps the ways in which sexual scientific thought circulated during the fin de siècle, tracing the interconnections between and breaks in the global circuits of sexological thought and how this circuitry continues to structure sexuality in the present. In so doing, Kahan and LaFleur position their approach and that of the special issue as a whole within the larger field of sexology, placing it in more robust dialogue with sexuali…
Antediluvian Sex
Reading Countée Cullen's little known 1940 text The Lost Zoo (that imagines the animals left behind by the Biblical flood), this essay recovers the queerness of uplift discourses in the Harlem Renaissance. I argue that Cullen draws on the queer resources of the Noah story and its narration in Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno (1939) in ways that temporally remap the periodization of the Harlem Renaissance. I call this process "collective queer re…
The Viper's Traffic-Knot
This essay charts a history and theory of celibacy. Redressing the scholarly and popular tendency to read celibacy as "closeted" homosexuality, I disarticulate the history of celibacy from the history of homosexuality. Despite Michel Foucault's much-recited lesson that "there is not one but many silences," queer theory continues to read celibacy as the sign of another practice: homosexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" or the "impo…
The Feeling of Kinship
Reviewed by: The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy Benjamin Kahan (bio) The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy, by David L. Eng. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. 268 pp. $23.95 paper. ISBN: 0822347326. David Eng’s The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy is a bold and ambitious book that attends to the ways in which queerness and t…
The Drama of Marriage
Reviewed by: The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present Benjamin Kahan The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present. By John M. Clum. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011; pp. 246. Animated by the recent political debates around gay marriage, John Clum’s recent book takes up “the paradox that, during the twentieth century, many of the most commercially and artisti…
Celibacies
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warh…
On Making Sense
Book Review| June 01 2015 On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility. By Martinez, Ernesto Javier. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press. 2013. xiii, 200 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $22.95.Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled. By Cobb, Michael. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2012. xii, 227 pp. …
Antediluvian Sex
Reading Countée Cullen's little known 1940 text The Lost Zoo (that imagines the animals left behind by the Biblical flood), this essay recovers the queerness of uplift discourses in the Harlem Renaissance. I argue that Cullen draws on the queer resources of the Noah story and its narration in Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno (1939) in ways that temporally remap the periodization of the Harlem Renaissance. I call this process "collective queer re…
Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (1844)
"With Heinrich Kaan's book we have then what could be called the date of birth, or in any case the date of the emergence, of sexuality and sexual aberrations in the psychiatric field."¿Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975Heinrich Kaan’s fascinating work—part medical treatise, part sexual taxonomy, part activist statement, and part anti-onanist tract—takes us back to the origins of sexology. He links the sexual i…
Conjectures on the Sexual World-System
This article brings together world-systems analysis, which explores how the world's capitalist markets became globally integrated, and sexuality studies for the first time in order to examine how the homo/hetero binary came to integrate and govern sexual organization throughout much of the world. Zooming out from the metropolitan and national frames that have dominated sexual historiography, this article operates at a different scale and order of…
Ray Johnson's Anti-Archive
This essay explores the work of “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson, contending that his complex relationship to sadomasochism provides a key switch point for Pop’s sexual and racial imaginary. In the register of sex, Johnson’s sadomasochism contests the stability of the relationship between homosexuality and Pop (theorized by Kenneth E. Silver, Jonathan D. Katz, Richard Meyer, and Douglas Crimp), offering instead a queerer objec…
On Ray Johnson's Sexuality, Loves, and Friendships
This interview was conducted with one of the closest friends of the visual artist Ray Johnson, the late photographer and writer William S. Wilson. Johnson was a fixture of the New York downtown art scene in the late 1940, 1950s, and 1960s. He was influenced by Abstract Expressionists and Pop artists alike, but was a true original, widely considered to be the founder of “mail art” and also an important collagist and performance artist. Wilson help…
The unexpected American origins of sexology and sexual science
In spite of the fact that the term ‘sexology’ was popularized in the United States by Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard and that the term ‘sexual science’—which is usually attributed to Iwan Bloch as ‘Sexualwissenschaft’—was actually coined by the American phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler in 1852, the archives of American sexology have received scant attention in the period prior to Alfred Kinsey. In my article, I explore the role of Transcendent…
Angel on a Freight Train
In the annals of the history of American sexuality, few diaries feature records of nineteenth-century sexual practice. Or if they do, such accounts are generally not extensive or elaborated, as when the diary of Mary Pierce Poor, the wife of the founder of the company that would become Standard and Poor's, denotes the beginning of her menstrual cycle with a “+” and sexual intercourse with her husband with an “x” (Janet Farrell Brodle, Contracepti…
How to Do the History of Sexual Science
This introduction maps the ways in which sexual scientific thought circulated during the fin de siècle, tracing the interconnections between and breaks in the global circuits of sexological thought and how this circuitry continues to structure sexuality in the present. In so doing, Kahan and LaFleur position their approach and that of the special issue as a whole within the larger field of sexology, placing it in more robust dialogue with sexuali…
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies …
Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Critical Response I
Sociology (15 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Gender Studies (11 obras) · Art (10 obras) · Human sexuality (9 obras) · Queer (9 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Literature (7 obras) · Law (6 obras)