White Trash and the Queer South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3612653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jude Hayward-Jansen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 477-500 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10642684-10740469 |
| OpenAlex | W4387358907 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 42 |
Situating itself in the crosshairs of critical whiteness studies, queer studies, and Black studies, this essay considers the literary production of the (poor) white trash subject in the intersection of two moments of racial upheaval-the civil rights era of the US South and the "focus on the family" during the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s-in which whiteness was under siege. Taking its cue from Toni Morrison's articulation of the white imaginary and W. E. B. Du Bois's history of the (Black) and white working class, this article looks at representations of queerness in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina to (1) understand the ways in which poor whiteness solidifies through queer moments of "bad" sex; and (2) reveal the ways in which "bad sex" retards white subjectivity/progressivity
Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · Subjectivity · The Imaginary · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
Off white
The wages of whiteness
White Savagery and Humiliation, or a New Racial Consciousness in the Media
The Kallikak family
Peoples on Parade
Discard Studies
Stamped from the Beginning
Playing in the dark
Reconstructing Womanhood
Introduction
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880
Critically Queer
Postcolonial Whiteness
American Mobilities
The Literature of Waste
Deviant Bodies
Look Away
White Women, Race Matters
The American South in a Global World
Bastard Logic and the Epics of Female Illegitimacy
American Mediterranean
Globalization and the American South
Stumbling toward a Democratic Theory of Incest
Claiming Access
Deviations
Female Gothic Fiction, Grotesque Realities, and Bastard Out of Carolina
Is the Rectum a Grave
Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
In a Queer Time and Place
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
The Smoky Pilgrims
Unpopular culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |