The Intimate Distance of Desire
June Jordan's Bisexual Inflections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12459232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Analouise Keating (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 81-93 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j155v04n02_06 |
| OpenAlex | W222146498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Through an exploration of June Jordan's poetry and prose, this essay questions contemporary definitions of bisexuality and lesbian writing, and attempts to enact a nonbinary bisexual reading praxis. I argue that Jordan employs several tactics - including ambivalently gendered pronouns, oscillations among apparently distinct categories of meaning, shifting referents, and performative speech acts - to resist restrictive identity politics. These bisexual inflections enable Jordan to replace conventional Enlightenment-based concepts of isolated, self-enclosed identities with open-ended models of identity formation that transform both herself and her readers. Moving between sameness and difference, Jordan's bisexual inflections destabilize the binary system structuring sexual, gender, and ethnic categories, creating an intersubjective matrix where new commonalities can arise. Key Words: BisexualityJordanJunereader response criticism
Aesthetics · Closet · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Lesbian · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Performative utterance · Praxis · Reading (process · Sexual identity · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |