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Offsetting queer literary labor

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:32 authored by Samuel SolomonSamuel Solomon
“Offsetting Queer Literary Labor” asks how LGBTQ+ people and other feminists navigated late twentieth-century changes in print technology in the period from roughly 1965-1990, a period during which typesetting was first computerized and then all but abandoned as part of the pre-print process. I do this by way of an encounter with the writings of Marxist-feminist poet Karen Brodine. The labor relations that surround the typesetting computer are part and parcel of the revolutionary working-class and queer socialist feminism that Brodine elaborates across her writing and that she worked for tirelessly in her life. Through a reading of her poetry, journals, and political activities, I argue that late-twentieth century US gender and sexual categories, as well as novel forms of queer intimacy, were forged through the material relations of print-related wage work. Rather than claiming to queer these texts or this history, this article argues that the concrete forms of feminized labor that attend literary technologies have been and continue to be the basis for the category of “LGBT literature.”

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

ISSN

1064-2684

Publisher

Duke University Press

Issue

2

Volume

24

Page range

239-266

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  • English Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-08-04

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-08-04

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-08-04

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