Performing “Of” and “In”: Charting a Body of Ambiguous Performances

Simmons, Jake

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“…Queer bodies are contested flesh ''standing in the wake'' (Alexander, 2011) [Shugart, 2003;Simmons, 2008]). The queer body, therefore, serves a dual purpose as the teller and the told, the source and site of trauma, an agent generating queer memory as well as the integral image of queer narrativity.…”

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Queerscape

Santoro¹

2016

International Review of Qualitative Research

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Auto/ethnography is not an apolitical endeavor, and as a queer researcher, I never lose sight of the sensibilities that influence my work. Leading with an explicit queer positionality and relying upon critical reflexivity, this essay focuses on my two-year fieldwork in rural, conservative Old Shawneetown, Illinois. I begin by navigating the natural landscape, illustrating how Shawneetown's flood-ravaged landscape implicates (my) queer identity—as both a lens for reading queer sexuality and as a metaphor for queer loss. Then, I shift to the human landscape—my interactions with the town's residents—where I feel the necessity to stifle my queer persona in favor of a performance that passes as heterosexual. Both landscape contexts position geography as a catalyst for the autobiographical, complicating issues of ethnographic dialogue, ethics, and risk—a queerscape—as divergent selves and subjectivities challenge one another in a charged, site-specific space of heteronormativity.

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Queerscape

Santoro¹

2016

International Review of Qualitative Research

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“…Furthermore, a heteronormative society inherently marginalizes queer individuals seeking to express their sexuality. Simmons (2008) Fox, 2011Fox, , 2010aFox, , 2010bJimmie Manning, 2009;E. Patrick Johnson, 2008b;Jake Simmons, 2008;Naida Zukic, 2008;Audre Lorde, 2007;Robert Westerfelhaus, 2007;David Valentine, 2003;Frederick C. Corey & Thomas K. Nakayama, 1997;Frederick C. Corey, 1996), they have not yet explored narrative performances of asexuality.…”

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Performing Asexuality through Narratives of Sexual Identity

Sundrud¹

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PERFORMING ASEXUALITY THROUGH NARRATIVES OF SEXUAL IDENTITY by Janet L. Sundrud This thesis explores the social construction of asexual identities through everyday narrative performances and critically examines the marginalizing effects of heteronormative discourses. This thesis posits narrative performance as a framework for understanding asexual identities within a heteronormative society. Drawing upon oral history and ethnographic methodologies, this thesis examines the narrative performances of three self-identified asexuals and explores four themes within each narrative: 1) the breach of heteronormative expectations, 2) the creation of commonality among individuals within the asexual community, 3) the negotiation of heteronormative discourses within the family, and 4) the construction of future-oriented liminoid narratives of asexuality. This thesis advances the claim that asexuality is a social identity by which asexuals narrate their past within a heteronormative society and envision a queer future. v Chapter One: The Modern Asexual

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The Writing on the Wall: Metonymy, Pulse, and the Disciplinary Intersections of Rhetoric and Performance Studies

Battaglia¹,

Simmons²

2013

Text and Performance Quarterly

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Performing “Of” and “In”: Charting a Body of Ambiguous Performances

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Queerscape

Queerscape

Performing Asexuality through Narratives of Sexual Identity

The Writing on the Wall: Metonymy, Pulse, and the Disciplinary Intersections of Rhetoric and Performance Studies

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