TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hayes,Jarrod Landin
TI  - Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree
SN  - 9780472053162
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Gender studies, gender groups
KW  - bicssc
KW  - African American Studies
KW  - Caribbean Studies
KW  - Diaspora Studies
KW  - Jewish Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Race and Ethnicity
KW  - Sexuality Studies
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Employing rootedness as a way of understanding identity has increasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques. Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to police identity through a politics of purity-excluding anyone who doesn't share the same narrative. Theoretically, a critique of essentialism has led to a suspicion against essence and origins regardless of their political implications. The central argument of Queer Roots for the Diaspora is that, in spite of these debates, ultimately the desire for roots contains the "roots" of its own deconstruction. The book considers alternative root narratives that acknowledge the impossibility of returning to origins with any certainty; welcome sexual diversity; acknowledge their own fictionality; reveal that even a single collective identity can be rooted in multiple ways; and create family trees haunted by the queer others patrilineal genealogy seems to marginalize
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UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64195
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