Queer Melancholia is a theoretical construct within queer aesthetics that designates the persistent affective condition arising from the disavowal of non-normative desires and identities, distinguished by its emphasis on the psychic and cultural residues of unmourning resulting from systemic LGBTQ+ erasure.
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Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions
Jesse Matz · Modernism/modernity · 2010 · 150 citations
Touching, unbelonging, and the absence of affect
Ranjana Khanna · Feminist Theory · 2012 · 33 citations
Josephine Brain · Feminist Theory · 2002 · 10 citations
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London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
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CRO · 1 publications · 57 citations
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