Homosextualities: Translating the Gay Male Body in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction
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Abstract
Homosextualities: Translating the Postcolonial Gay Male Body in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction examines the intersections between queer and postcolonial theories/literatures. Through analysis of short stories, novels, and art from different postcolonial regions, I trace how the postcolonial gay male body sexualizes single national imaginaries through a rhetorical discourse I call “homosextualities.” Chapter 1, “Lingual Dic(k)tations: Alternative Postcolonial Body Languages,” examines how gay male bodies in postcolonial fiction construct an alternative erotic and gay national language of the body in Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House (US/India 2016), Saleem Haddad’s Guapa (Middle East 2016), and Thomas Glave’s short story “Out There” from The Torturer’s Wife (Jamaica/UK/US 2008). Chapter 2 “Anal Allegories: Behind the (W)hole Story” compares and contrast representations of the anus in Thomas Glave’s “Blue Globes,” (Jamaica, UK, US 2008), Reinaldo Arenas’ The Color of Summer (Cuba 1982), K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams (South Africa 2001), and Manil Suri’s The City of Devi (India 2003). I argue that the postcolonial gay male body uses the anus as a literary space of communion, pleasure, sexual enunciation, and national futurity. Finally, in Chapter 3 “Postcolonial Drag: Visualizing Other Drag Alternatives,” I examine representations of gay Muslim males performing what I call “postcolonial drag.” Through examination of Diriye Osman’s “The Other (Wo)man” from Fairy Tales for Lost Children (Somalia 2013) and Hasan Namir’s God In Pink (Canada/Iraq 2015), I explore how Gay Muslim Males use postcolonial drag to challenge contemporary forms of orientalist homophobia to create visibility, knowledge, and communal representations of their individual bodies and sexualities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".