Put a Little Honey in My Sweet Tea
Oral History as Quare Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4520267 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Patrick Johnson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 51-67 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.2016.0035 |
| OpenAlex | W2528383310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay takes up current debates about the problems that queer theory poses for conducting LGBT history. Drawing on the oral history research of Southern African American queer women, I argue that performance as method provides an alternative to traditional historiography that is more in keeping with the open-endedness of queer theory, while also highlighting the erotics of narration embedded within oral history research. The essay also engages the politics of a male researcher conducting research on queer women and whether or not the research constitutes feminist historiography
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · Oral history · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |