"The Queer Contact Zone: Empire and Military Masculinity " Topic

… in the Memoirs of Hannah Snell and Mary Anne Talbot, 1750-1810

"The cross-dressed female soldier played a prominent role within Anglophone popular culture from the American Revolution through the Napoleonic Wars, appearing in ballads, comic operas, plays, and life writing. Feminist and queer analyses of these figures have largely been celebratory, framing historical military cross-dressers as working-class heroines or important examples of an emerging model of female masculinity. However, these interpretations have yet to acknowledge how these transgressive figures' claims to subjectivity as representatives of the British military depend upon active participation in the imperial project. These female soldiers' ability to perform masculinity is contingent upon a narrative and discursive investment in colonialism, violence, and racial hegemony. Using concepts from contemporary decolonial theory as a point of entry into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular culture, this article documents how the memoirs of two combat veterans--Hannah Snell and Mary Anne Talbot--serve as early examples of what Jasbir Puar and others describe as "homonationalism." By repeatedly marking the difference between their own "queerness" and the strangeness of the cisgender women, slaves, and indigenous people they encounter, Snell and Talbot garner legitimacy within the dominant by aligning themselves with masculinity, patriotism, and imperialism. Re-examining these warriors' self-proclaimed "surprising adventures" within their colonial context reveals an unsettling relationship between queer historicism and the history of imperialism."
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Amicalement
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Oh my…

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Amicalement
Armand

I was hoping that loads of people would have took the bait, endless dog housing, but no.

One wonders how many will undertake to read the article.

it is rather roccoco in language.

I got bored after the first few sentences and gave up. That's probably why no one is bothering about taking the bait.

Perhaps cross-dressers can be added to the list of people the new, modern, British Army should appeal to in its latest adverts, using these two women as role models?

Pomo word salad, with only the vaguest possible connection to miniatures.

Posts like this are why I am trimming back what boards appear on the front page, and have not renewed my membership. TMP is flooded with extraneous link posts. While I appreciate the gems Tango finds, the irrelevant noise is drowning out what little signal remains. And I must admit, I am loathe to click on even the interesting, relevant links, and I don't want to encourage this anymore.

TMP has become 'Tango's Clickthrough Generator'. Were they strictly miniatures-focused, I might not mind as much, but the boards are inundated.