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Queer Futurity

  • Cedric EssiEmail author
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This entry introduces diverging concepts of “queer futurity” and places particular emphasis on intersecting questions of race and kinship.

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  1. 1.Institute for English and American Studies / Collaborative Research Center “Law and Literature”University of OsnabrückOsnabrückGermany

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