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queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex/race in medieval English lit. helicopter parent to a kitty. phd. (he/him). views my own.

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    Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

    Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Axel Folio, PhD, BFF of Mr. Bloodaxe

    Thread: the editors and many of the authors in Dating Beowulf treat queerness a modern phenomenon that can be "applied" to an OE poem but never found there. They fail to acknowledge decades of queer work in early medieval studies & queer work on intimacy. #MedievalTwitterhttps://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1210667951604609024 …

    Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

    Axel Folio, PhD, BFF of Mr. Bloodaxe @ISASaxonists
    Speaking of other marginalized groups, this edition has a couple of queer authors but the author of a piece on Beowulf &queerness is straight cis-gendered &is not an expert in queer theory. This author trivializes queerness. I will let my queer colleagues like @erik_kaars 18/26
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      2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Queerness appears often as a marker of playfulness and the collection's "hipness," a source of jokes (Grindr!) rather than a methodology to be engaged with seriously. Queer scholars of color in particular are cited in passing by the introduction but their work on race is ignored.pic.twitter.com/y99EhLVs30

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      3. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        It is exciting and refreshing to see an early medieval collection discuss queerness, but its choices emphasize queerness as a modern, reader-response phenomenon that acts as an imposed reading of Beowulf. Queerness and Beowulf are repeatedly contrasted and depicted as separate.pic.twitter.com/HdQR9SxxPp

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      4. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        They present queerness as 20th-century, the paradigm that has dominated the field for decades: queer readings are anachronistic and "imposed" on medieval texts (See this 1992 review in Speculum, for instance). Yet the editors rarely try to counter such narratives.pic.twitter.com/x1pS3mADbb

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      5. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Such claims about queer theory approaches specifically (and work on same-sex desire in general) have been made for YEARS in this field. Allen Frantzen has long criticized queer theory as anachronistic and even as "hostile to the basic premises of medieval scholarship."pic.twitter.com/Tbe2y6GJ80

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      6. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Yet the anthology implies Frantzen is correct. Buchanan's reading of a queer modernist novel titled Beowulf makes use of a palimpsest metaphor that figures queer people "writing over" the text of Beowulf and of lesbians queering the past by refusing "to take it simply as it is."pic.twitter.com/iE1jGT3YWi

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      7. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Buchanan contrasts this queer rewriting of Beowulf to modern retellings of the poem in film and graphic novels where Beowulf and Grendel wrestling naked, which Buchanan described as "unfortunately the case" in several adaptations.pic.twitter.com/XEhiT2wTeJ

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      8. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        This wording suggests discomfort with a reading of the poem that emphasizes the nudity and homoeroticism of the two āglǣċan wrestling together--a moment open for queering. The "unfortunate" García and Rubín graphic novel does so by showing Grendel cum on Beowulf (not pictured).pic.twitter.com/UCEgBawkmq

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      9. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        The collection's editors have been presenting it as a hip collection of queer and feminist approaches that will take on conservative politics and gatekeeping, yet few essays actually engage queer scholarship or even use the term "queer."pic.twitter.com/LeoriM4Ix4

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      10. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Beowulf itself is represented as a poem devoid of sex and especially of homoeroticism.pic.twitter.com/4v1qj7r1qJ

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      11. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Queerness and queer communities are presented as narrow, subcultural groups that are contrasted with "broader communities."pic.twitter.com/L4Nvqrzwor

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      12. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Most oddly, the introduction repeatedly transitions from discussions of same-sex intimacy to images of parasites and hosts. One would have hoped the editors would avoid such comparisons, given the history of the association of queer people with disease and infestation.pic.twitter.com/7Hv4y2pxdE

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      13. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        There is simply little engagement with the recent history of queer scholarship in early medieval English studies. Most of the work cited is from the 90s (Dinshaw, Lees) and pathbreaking queer scholars in the field like @EileenAJoy are almost entirely omitted.

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      14. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        David Clark's groundbreaking work on male-male intimacy in OE lit is missing from all but Mo Pareles' and Irina Dumitrescu' essays. Diane Watt and Lisa Weston's scholarship on queerness and intimacy between women in OE lit is entirely absent

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      15. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Most stunningly, the entire collection does not acknowledge perhaps the most important previous book in early queer and intimacy studies in early medieval England: Pasternack and Weston's Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England.pic.twitter.com/RosviF9sIK

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      16. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Queer theorists of color like Sara Ahmed and José Estaban Muñoz are briefly cited but their work on citational practice is ignored. Both argue for citing queer and feminist work, particularly that of scholars of color, which is often erased in favor of cishet white men

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      17. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Unfortunately, the citation practices Muñoz and Ahmed critique are present here. Allen Frantzen, for instance, is cited repeatedly but the well-documented sexism and racism of his work is never mentioned. When they mention #femfog, they don't name him.pic.twitter.com/jyQb160wXE

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      18. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        I gave feedback on one piece for this anthology, which--at the time--had an excellent criticism of Frantzen's work and legacy. The editors told the author to remove it. Why is this collection protecting the legacy of problematic figures in early medieval queer studies?

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      19. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Indeed, it is disturbing to see more citations (16) of Frantzen and of a scholar who is a notorious sexual predator than there are of scholars of color who work on the early Middle Ages (2). How is this progressive scholarship?

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      20. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Similarly, much deeply relevant work from queer theory is absent. Buchanan's essay on a queer woman's modernist novel about looking back to the past has no reference to Heather Love's Feeling Backward, for instance, a work on queer women turning to the past in modernist lit.pic.twitter.com/x58jfrR6s5

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      21. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Likewise, a rich field of queer intimacy studies is ignored or even claimed to not exist. At a minimum, one would expect citations of people like Tim Dean, Elizabeth Povinelli, Michael Warner, to say nothing of work on intimacy and cruising, for instance.pic.twitter.com/dZ9lsGCjPn

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      22. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        They claim that queer theory rarely focuses on the intimacy "between people," ignoring work like Dean's Unlimited Intimacy, which theorizes intimacy between men who fuck anonymously without condoms. Using Dean's work to analyze Beowulf wrestling with Grendel would be fascinating.pic.twitter.com/5vuyxWLmws

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      23. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        This is not to say that the collection does not have excellent pieces, particularly those done by scholars with a background in queer theory. Mo Pareles' essay is excellent, points to the relevant previous queer scholarship, and identifies gaps in Beowulf scholarship.

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      24. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        But what could have been a promising collection of new queer and feminist work often feels like its methodology and contributors retread familiar ground, centralizing cishet white scholars and contributing to an image of queerness as white, modern, and innately anachronistic.

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      25. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 30 Dec 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin

        See also @AdmiralHip's excellent thread on the problematic queer approaches here:https://twitter.com/AdmiralHip/status/1210705863595286528 …

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

        Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin @AdmiralHip
        I wasn't going to get into the queer paper today but it's bothering tf out of me. You can't have this as an introduction and not engage with the awful attitudes in a stronger manner than just, oh it's actually good though, later on. pic.twitter.com/21fFhHdz1r
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      26. End of conversation

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