Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge and Myron as Allegories of Queer Futurities
Eveline Kilian (HU Berlin)
eveline.kilian@rz.hu-berlin.de
This paper takes Gore Vidal’s novel Myra Breckinridge (1968) and its sequel Myron (1974) as its starting point to explore the temporalities of queer agency. In Myra Breckinridge, the eponymous heroine, a transsexual woman empowered by her newly acquired gender, sets out [...]
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Queer Futurities Abstracts
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Queer Futurities in Berlin
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Queer Futurities, Today: Utopias and Beyond in Queer Theory
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Symposium in Berlin 18.5.-19.5.2009
Location:
- Finnland-Institut in Deutschland, Georgenstr. 24
- ICI Kulturlabor Berlin, Christinenstr. 18/19 Haus 8
(It is fairly easy to get from the Finnish institute to ICI, where Lee Edelman’s talk will take place. First two stations with the S-Bahn (Friedrichstrasse – Alexanderplatz), and then 3 stations [...]
