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The Revenge of the Gay Nihilist
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 16, Number 3, Summer 2001
- pp. 115-125
- Article
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Bodies and Pleasures has been characterized as a confessional discourse that manages to subvert confessional practice. Here it is characterized and discussed as an askesis that works to transform confessional practice as it transforms the writer/reader. Two questions emerge through that transformation: (1) How is race (in particular, whiteness) to be lived? (2) What are the possibilities for political subjectivity in the absence of dualism and the intensification of awareness of our normalization?