Indeterminacies
Queer Tales of Love and Suffering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3947182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Themal Ellawala (0000-0001-5948-4167, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 133 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-62 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01417789221138097 |
| OpenAlex | W4324142935 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 23 |
This is a meditation on love and suffering, pleasure and pain. Despite common sense, public discourse and scholarship narrating these states as diametrically opposed, the lived experience of queer romantic love cannot be disarticulated from the social realities of loss and pain. Suturing love and suffering is the metaphysic of indeterminacy, with the unexpected and uncertain marking romantic encounters and ambitions with precarity and impermanence. Drawing from vignettes gained through an ethnography on queer erotics in Sri Lanka in 2016, I explore how queer love manifests and perishes in the most inexplicable fashion, against the backdrop of structural violence and the vagaries of intersubjective relationalities. A sensitivity to indeterminacy enables an excavation of the elsewheres that inhere to and are conjured by queer romantic love, from the entanglements that live outside of the binaries of heterosexual-homosexual to the utopic futural imaginaries that are made possible at this site. Meanwhile, the suffering engendered by indeterminacy gestures to the precarities of elsewhere, and the transient nature of queer futurity. I engage scholarship on social suffering and romantic love to demonstrate how both corpora of literature are united at the site of the Sri Lankan queer figure, and how centring indeterminacy troubles epistemic projects that seek to know love and the lover with certainty
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Indeterminacy (philosophy) · Pleasure · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Romance · Scholarship · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Metabolic Living
Talk of Love
Critical Events
The Making and Meaning of Relationships in Sri Lanka
Elsewheres
Dance Ponnaya, Dance! Police Abuses Against Transgender Sex Workers in Sri Lanka
Mismatched Lovers
Decisions of Identity
Crossing ‘lines’ of subjectivity
Notes on Love in a Tamil Family
The social construction of male 'homosexuality' in India
Indeterminate Bodies
Ephemera as Evidence
Towards a poethics of love
Indeterminate Subjects, Irreducible Worlds
Wayward lives, beautiful experiments
Radical Worlds
Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Risk
Love and the Little Line
ConceivingKothis
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |