(Ir)rational Actors and the Politics of Unseeing
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Moore, Marshall 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-0828
(2018)
(Ir)rational Actors and the Politics of Unseeing.
Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 46 (2).
pp. 293-298.
ISSN 08842043
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China Mieville's novel The City & the City offers a vision of two overlapping, interpenetrating city-states: Ul Qoma and Besźel. Residents of one city are, by law, unable to see or interact with people in the other - even if they are physically next to each other but on the opposite side of the border. The experience presented in this book mimics the experience of being a gay man in the 1980s and 1990s, the worst of the AIDS years, when to be queer was to be seen and unseen at the same time. I argue that it is better to resist power structures that rest upon the politics of unseeing.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSN: | 08842043 |
| Subjects: | Writing & Journalism > Creative Writing Writing & Journalism > Literature > English Literature |
| Courses by Department: | The School of Writing & Journalism > English & Writing |
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| Depositing User: | Marshall Moore |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2020 10:27 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2022 16:22 |
| URI: | https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/4015 |
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