... Act bhalu ki baat the matter of the bear monkeys nature culture boundary anthropocentrism otherwild relatedness bestiality animal folklore agency and resistance queer desire gender and patriarchy It was the time of year when mandua, beloved food of bears, was not yet quite...

..., by contrast, alternative models most often arise as a way to accommodate queer desires that did not have a place in the standard nuclear family model. When the possibility of reproductive futurity is removed in an English novel (due to disability, hereditary illness, or queer desire), the same types...

...This chapter analyzes the connection between musical desire and queer desire, and musical identity and queer identity. It suggests that recognizing the so-called musicosexual “closet codes” and their workings may clarify and complicate any number of issues in musical modernism concerning...

...This article examines the ways that diverse sexualities are erased from many tribal contexts and the obstacles that continue to hinder the representation of queer desire and identity in contemporary Indigenous literature. In particular, it looks at how contemporary queer and two-spirited Native...

... Bruadair Dáibhí Ó Cadhain Máirtín O’Connor Ulick Ó Criomhthain Tomás Aran Islands Wilde Oscar Rizzolati Piera Yeats William Butler Ó Ríordáin Seán Pascoli Giovanni Giacomini Amedeo Guerra Tonino Zanzotto Andrea Pasolini Friulian Brendan Behan Queer desire Minor languages Modernism...

... their attention to limiting constructions of Black femininity and sexual minority existence that impede self-definition. The chapter also highlights Darieck Scott's experimental novel Traitor to the Race (1995) because it presents queer desire specifically as having the potential to disrupt...

...This chapter examines the representations of male same-sex eroticism and other modes of queerness in contemporary Thai cinema. It proceeds from the proposition that cinematic expressions of queer desire in recent Thai films possess a distinctive cast that is at once specific and complex, forged...

... coalition politics Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI violence Croft Clare queerness Anna Sokolow Cold War Lavender Scare Rooms queer desire homosexual longing In the opening of a dimly lit scene set by a melodic exchange between piano and trumpet, a woman passionately runs among a handful...

...) harnesses the power of the female body to disrupt the heteronormative impulses of narrative; creates a parthenogenetic world that celebrates motherhood; ironically deploys conventional representations of femininity; critiques heterosexual romance; and channels queer desire through the structure of musical...