On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility

by Ernesto Javier Martínez

Book Overview

On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. From James Baldwin's 1960s novel Another Country to Margaret Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy, these works all exhibit a preoccupation with intelligibility, or the labor of making sense of oneself and of making sense to others. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804783403
• ISBN13: 9780804783408
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"