The equivalent decoding-systems of queer reading in academia, especially for premodern academia, rely on the fact that The Queer Truth has been Suppressed, and we must decode it (h/t Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, she calls this the hermeneutics of suspicion).
Hermeneutics of suspicion! What a great expression! But I know from various tumblr posts that modern academics - many of whom are queer themselves - are getting a bit sick of this whole Academia Suppresses The Queer Truth line.
By and large it treated the canon and the surplus of meaning generated by the canon as something we could use to communicate with each other.
Wow, I really love that. That's exactly how I see it, I just hadn't heard it put that way quite yet.
It reminds me of the comparison David Duchovny famously made between the X-Files fandom and a small-town church, where he pointed out that the church became more about community than religion. So fandom can either be more dogmatic and concerned with the canon, or it can be more about coming together through the canon.
That's... [ ] why I literally did not speak to a friend for nine months after she tried to get me into an argument about The Real Morgan Le Fay, circa Merlin s2
Oh god, I can just imagine.
Anyway, um hi, you probably don't know me well enough to know that a. I WILL put citations in my fandom meta and b. everything is about Arthuriana to me
*whistles* Getting to knooooow you, getting to feel freeeee and eeeeeeasy...
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Date: 2018-12-11 08:01 pm (UTC)Hermeneutics of suspicion! What a great expression! But I know from various tumblr posts that modern academics - many of whom are queer themselves - are getting a bit sick of this whole Academia Suppresses The Queer Truth line.
Wow, I really love that. That's exactly how I see it, I just hadn't heard it put that way quite yet.
It reminds me of the comparison David Duchovny famously made between the X-Files fandom and a small-town church, where he pointed out that the church became more about community than religion. So fandom can either be more dogmatic and concerned with the canon, or it can be more about coming together through the canon.
Oh god, I can just imagine.
*whistles* Getting to knooooow you, getting to feel freeeee and eeeeeeasy...