The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian
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 Shoujo Kakumei Utena(1997). This article ex-plores the affective sustenance that Revolutionary Girl Utenaoffersto some queer children an...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:249963 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/249963 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1344/Lectora2021.27.10 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Anime Lesbian Revolutionary girl Utena Lesbiana Queer Utena: la chica revolucionaria |
| Sumario: | 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 Shoujo Kakumei Utena(1997). This article ex-plores the affective sustenance that Revolutionary Girl Utenaoffersto some queer children and teens in the face of a somber heteronormative reality. The essay performs a close reading of epi-sode seven, "Unfulfilled Juri", and focuses on one of the queer feminine characters that the show cultivates, the tragic (joyful) lesbian. Paradoxically, and fortunately, this anime lesbian is far from being an abject figure and, in fact, becomes a site for queer identifier projections and desires. |
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