The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian: Reading Revolutionary Girl Utena
A tentative response to Eve Sedgwick's timely question "How to bring your kids up gay?" lies at the heart of Kunihiko Ikuhara's anime TV series Shōjo Kakumei Utena (1997). This article explores the affective sustenance that Revolutionary Girl Utenaoffers to some queer children an...
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description | A tentative response to Eve Sedgwick's timely question "How to bring your kids up gay?" lies at the heart of Kunihiko Ikuhara's anime TV series Shōjo Kakumei Utena (1997). This article explores the affective sustenance that Revolutionary Girl Utenaoffers to some queer children and teens in the face of a somber heteronormative reality. This essay performs a close reading of Episode seven "Unfulfilled Juri", and it focuses on one of the queer feminine formations that the show cultivates, the tragic (joyful) anime lesbian. Paradoxically, and fortunately, the anime lesbian far from being an abject figure, becomes a site for queer identificatory projections and desires. |
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spelling | doaj.art-e97deb1b3a6342ccb041d7189dbddf562022-12-21T20:04:42ZcatUniversitat de BarcelonaLectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat1136-57812013-94702021-10-012710.1344/Lectora2021.27.10The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian: Reading Revolutionary Girl UtenaGiancarlo Cornejo0University of Southern CaliforniaA tentative response to Eve Sedgwick's timely question "How to bring your kids up gay?" lies at the heart of Kunihiko Ikuhara's anime TV series Shōjo Kakumei Utena (1997). This article explores the affective sustenance that Revolutionary Girl Utenaoffers to some queer children and teens in the face of a somber heteronormative reality. This essay performs a close reading of Episode seven "Unfulfilled Juri", and it focuses on one of the queer feminine formations that the show cultivates, the tragic (joyful) anime lesbian. Paradoxically, and fortunately, the anime lesbian far from being an abject figure, becomes a site for queer identificatory projections and desires.http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/33302animelesbianqueerRevolutionary Girl Utena |
spellingShingle | Giancarlo Cornejo The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian: Reading Revolutionary Girl Utena Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat anime lesbian queer Revolutionary Girl Utena |
title | The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian: Reading Revolutionary Girl Utena |
title_full | The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian: Reading Revolutionary Girl Utena |
title_fullStr | The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian: Reading Revolutionary Girl Utena |
title_full_unstemmed | The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian: Reading Revolutionary Girl Utena |
title_short | The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian: Reading Revolutionary Girl Utena |
title_sort | sedgwickian queerness of an anime lesbian reading revolutionary girl utena |
topic | anime lesbian queer Revolutionary Girl Utena |
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