These landscaping schemes have typically been labelled “historical restorations” in attempts to predetermine the evaluation criteria as “historic” rather than political, social and aesthetic. In recent years, the local authorities in London’s historic Bloomsbury district have carried out a number of refurbishments of the area’s public squares. Moreover, critics have imagined this gay-oriented work itself to be “reductive.” Rechy is therefore the occasion to ask, counterintuitively, if queer scholarship's aversion to reductionism as mistakenly limiting and homogenizing recapitulates the devaluing of homosexuality in the modern West as a misguided attachment to sameness.

Rechy frequently presents a close relation between forms of reduction and the gay lives and worlds that are a significant focus of his work. However, the essay suggests that the writing of John Rechy can help us reflect on why queer scholarship should be organized in this way. Addressing a range of theoretical material, especially the work of Leo Bersani, this essay attributes the taken-for-granted status of reductionism to queer theory's structuring opposition to ideas associated with sameness-among them normativity, reproduction, and the status quo. OL61320W Page_number_confidence 92.50 Pages 322 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220727123946 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 469 Scandate 20220726130328 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 039453901 Tts_version 5.What is so bad about the “reductive”? In queer and other scholarship, reductionism signals simplistic homogeneity, fixity, and limitation, which are ideas often taken to be self-evidently problematic.

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The Sexual Outlaw by John Rechy