GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies· 2026Q1
On Racializing Interdictions in Queer Temporalities
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This article rereads Frantz Fanon's "The Lived Experience of the Black Man" to argue that the narrator's descent dramatizes a racialized rending of temporality, offering a lesson for queer theory's pursuit of transtemporal affirmation.
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Key points
- The article offers a literary rereading of Frantz Fanon's "The Lived Experience of the Black Man."
- It argues that the narrator's dramatic descent into an ambivalent performance of Blackness dramatizes a recurring rending of temporality.
- This analysis draws on Fanon's critique of temporality and implications for nonlinear temporalities in queer theory.
- The study reckons with Fanon's katabasis as a lesson about racializing interdictions in the queer reach for transtemporal affirmation.
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Abstract
This article offers a literary rereading of a moment in Frantz Fanon's “L'expérience vécue du Noir” (“The Lived Experience of the Black [Man]”), the last and longest section of which is characterized by a dramatized katabasis. This article argues that the narrator's dramatic descent into an increasingly ambivalent performance of poetic declamations of a recovered Blackness itself dramatizes a recurring rending of temporality. Instructed by Fanon's own critique of temporality as assumed by phenomenology, this article draws out the implications of such an argument for affirmations of nonlinear temporalities in literarily minded queer theory. Ultimately, in conversation with the special issue's contributions, this article reckons with the dramatized katabasis of Fanon's narrator as an ever (un)timely lesson about the racializing interdictions at work in the queer reach for a transtemporal touch of affirmation.
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