Figuring the Angry Inch

Transnormativity, the black femme and the fraudulent phallus; or fleshly remainders of the 'ungendered' and the 'unthought

Bibliographic Data

ID4367481
AuthorsÆryka J Hollis O''Neil, Æryka J Hollis O'Neil (Northwestern University), æryka jourdaine hollis o'neil (Northwestern University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume19
Issue1
Pages23-40
Publication date2018-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700117742868
OpenAlexW2790058129
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited14

This article takes up Hortense Spillers' conception of 'ungendered' flesh and Saidiya Hartman's notion of the 'position of the unthought' occupied by the figure of the Black- qua-Slave in order to explore their resonance for considering the interrelations between anti-black racial antagonism, ontological positioning and hegemonic renderings of gender formation and sexual taxonomies. Examining the performance and reception of the recent Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Taye Diggs as a case study, it asks what role race, and specifically (anti-)blackness, plays in the representation, recognition and intelligibility of proper, (non-)normative gendered corporealities within the dominant imaginary and collective unconscious

Epistemology · Hegemony · Normative · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Unconscious mind · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies

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