Queer Temporalities, Beat Times

The two terms of our title have long been destined for each other but, in the style of a Hollywood romantic comedy, have taken their sweet time to merge in an embrace. This special issue wants to be a setting for such a moment. We come into this with a double-pronged hypothesis: that “Beat time” is...

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Hoofdauteurs: Encarnación-Pinedo, Estíbaliz, Suárez, Juan Antonio
Formaat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Taal:Anglais
Gepubliceerd in: European journal of American studies 2026
Online toegang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Samenvatting:The two terms of our title have long been destined for each other but, in the style of a Hollywood romantic comedy, have taken their sweet time to merge in an embrace. This special issue wants to be a setting for such a moment. We come into this with a double-pronged hypothesis: that “Beat time” is queer time, as it disrupts and rearranges the chronological patterns of straight society, and that recent critical work on queer temporality—the particular rhythms and tempos of queer minorities—c...