Anachronizing the Penitentiary, Queering the History of Sexuality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3626701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kadji Amin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-340 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| 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 | 10.1215/10642684-2074521 |
| OpenAlex | W2163336998 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
The backward turn to anachronistic forms of punishment and bygone historical periods in Jean Genet's 1946 memoir-novel, Miracle of the Rose, is not fully intelligible either as a retrograde resistance to "progressive" politics or as a compensation for the impossibility of same-sex desire in the novel's present, as Genet critics and literary critics of pre-Stonewall texts have tried to argue. Rather, Miracle's anachronisms open a temporal fold for queer modes of belonging, pleasure, and even paradise that, though historically experienced, remain unintelligible within forward-thrusting histories of sexuality, narratives of maturation, and discourses of penal reform. This article proposes that Miracle's cultural work on anachronism is not happenstance but necessitated, first, by the criminological and psychiatric construction of the homosexual pervert and the delinquent as linked figures of anachronism - of atavism, degeneration, and perverse development - and second, by the modern penitentiary's disciplinary organization of time. Precisely because of its status as a flashpoint within discourses of delinquency and of criminal reeducation, anachronism may constitute a resource for elaborating counter-temporalities congenial to queer modes of belonging
Aesthetics · Anachronism · Art · Human sexuality · Impossibility · Literature · Miracle · Narrative · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Presentism · Queer · Sociology · Temporalities · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology
Provincializing Europe
Discipline and Punish
Normal Life
Queer Fictions of the Past
Homosexuality in Modern France
Criminal Intimacy
Freedom with Violence
The Lesbian Premodern
Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Anthropologies of Modernity
Materializing Democracy
Terrorist Assemblages
Spectral Mourning and Carceral Masculinities
Theorizing Queer Temporalities
"Homophobia, Vichy France, and the "Crime of Homosexuality
When Marriage Falls
Re-Orienting Desire
Globalism and the prison industrial complex
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |