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The Opacity of Queer Languages
Anna T.
Since at least the sixteenth century, individuals who could in today’s terminology be referred to as LGBTQ+ or queer have been creating their own linguistic registers. The “closet,” for one, is a linguistic formation that only dates back to the mid-twentieth century, as we may be aware. What is perhaps less known is how these languages were produced in the context of the secrecy that the proverbial closet provides, and what parallels within that space can be drawn with Édouard Glissant’s…
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 1, 2014
Category
Language & Linguistics, LGBTQ+
Subjects
Queer Art & Theory