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Additions to my Kylux Meta:
Sep. 3rd, 2019 07:16 pmvia https://ift.tt/2LooBfF
saturnmond:
It is a piece of literary analysis. So it has very little to do with what will or could potentially become canon. I merely applied queer theory to the texts of Star Wars, trying to outline how such a ship comes into being and how it actually follows quite the well-established tradition of queer coding. I just wanted to point out that Kylux has some interesting roots, can be academically traced and is not coming out of nowhere.
I actually disagree with Edelman’s Death Drive. It is no coincidence that I called it a “Polemic”. He himself put that word into the title. Only a few months ago, I wrote a paper argueing against his use of futurity for it ignores many perspectives. Edelman tends to reduce the world into a white/cis/heteronormative and white/gay/cis/male dichotomy. I put his theory into my Kylux meta because it’s especially relevant to the framing of the queer monster and the subversive nature of queerness.
The male/female dyad is a tool for literary criticism and academic analysis. It does of course not reflect upon my very own feelings about gender. However, it cannot be denied that acts/clothes/behaviours have a gendered connotation in our society, no matter how unjust this connotation may be. So even if I am not argueing for this to be the result of authorial intent, these signifyers exist and hold subconscious meaning for the reader/viewer.
saturnmond:
It is a piece of literary analysis. So it has very little to do with what will or could potentially become canon. I merely applied queer theory to the texts of Star Wars, trying to outline how such a ship comes into being and how it actually follows quite the well-established tradition of queer coding. I just wanted to point out that Kylux has some interesting roots, can be academically traced and is not coming out of nowhere.
I actually disagree with Edelman’s Death Drive. It is no coincidence that I called it a “Polemic”. He himself put that word into the title. Only a few months ago, I wrote a paper argueing against his use of futurity for it ignores many perspectives. Edelman tends to reduce the world into a white/cis/heteronormative and white/gay/cis/male dichotomy. I put his theory into my Kylux meta because it’s especially relevant to the framing of the queer monster and the subversive nature of queerness.
The male/female dyad is a tool for literary criticism and academic analysis. It does of course not reflect upon my very own feelings about gender. However, it cannot be denied that acts/clothes/behaviours have a gendered connotation in our society, no matter how unjust this connotation may be. So even if I am not argueing for this to be the result of authorial intent, these signifyers exist and hold subconscious meaning for the reader/viewer.
