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“You Make Me Feel Right Quare”Promiscuous Reading, Minoritarian Critique, and White Sovereign Entrepreneurial Terror

“You Make Me Feel Right Quare”Promiscuous Reading, Minoritarian Critique, and White Sovereign... This article uses two ephemeral patent remedy advertisements from the 1890s to examine an aesthetic-affective category I call white sovereign entrepreneurial terror. Linking the period before the rise of progressivism and New Deal economics to the total collapse and evacuation of those structures following the 2016 election, I detail the qualities of this intoxicated, carnivalesque, free-market affect, outline its affiliation with the aggressive return of white nationalism, and make an argument for a determined return to a pre-twentieth-century archive in American studies, grounded in contemporary queer and minoritarian, in particular African American, critique. I call the methodology of this return “promiscuous reading.” http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Social Text Duke University Press

“You Make Me Feel Right Quare”Promiscuous Reading, Minoritarian Critique, and White Sovereign Entrepreneurial Terror

Social Text , Volume 35 (4) – Dec 1, 2017

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Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press
ISSN
0164-2472
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1527-1951
DOI
10.1215/01642472-4223393
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Abstract

This article uses two ephemeral patent remedy advertisements from the 1890s to examine an aesthetic-affective category I call white sovereign entrepreneurial terror. Linking the period before the rise of progressivism and New Deal economics to the total collapse and evacuation of those structures following the 2016 election, I detail the qualities of this intoxicated, carnivalesque, free-market affect, outline its affiliation with the aggressive return of white nationalism, and make an argument for a determined return to a pre-twentieth-century archive in American studies, grounded in contemporary queer and minoritarian, in particular African American, critique. I call the methodology of this return “promiscuous reading.”

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Social TextDuke University Press

Published: Dec 1, 2017

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