CS206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Michael Warner, Queer Theory, Intertextuality
7 Nov 2016
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Seymour h. know professor of english literature and american studies at yale. Engaging in social interaction that makes a stranger known to one, communicating with another doesn"t have to me through meeting(text)) Coming together (through not necessarily in the same space or at the same time) to be the audience of a text. A text is really any with meaning in a culture or sub-culture. A text us really any with meaning in a culture or sub culture. Queer theory and the public / private distinction. Critque of mainstream gay and lesbian rights movements. Demands we be more precise by what we mean. Queen identities remind us that all identities are public and private in important ways. They are formed relative to culturally specific discursive field created by the circulation of texts including intertextual reference. A set of symbols, a set of meanings, all identities are influenced - all production of the self is done here.
