Coda

Abstract

Abstract Moving into the twenty-first century, the book’s coda reflects on the generational splits resulting from the AIDS era, suggesting that looking back to the radical communities of earlier eras can provide new directions for queer writers and for a queer left today. The coda contains brief readings of work written in the context of homonationalism and the War on Terror by Rob Halpern, along with work by Eileen Myles, whose work experiments with modes queer being that are not tied to any one bodily identity, seeking to establish what Erica Kaufman, in a review of Myles’ work, calls “the end of gender.” The chapter concludes with a brief consideration of the scholarship of Kevin Killian and a rollcall of names for future investigation, reflecting on conjuncture from which the book as a whole is written and the future into which it seeks to emerge.