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Key Words 13 (2015), Pp Key Words A Journal of Cultural Materialism Queerwords: Sexuality and the Politics of Culture 13 (2015) edited by David Alderson Catherine Clay Tony Crowley Emily Cuming Simon Dentith Kristin Ewins Ben Harker Angela Kershaw Stan Smith i.m. Simon Dentith, 22 March 1952–23 November 2014 Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism Editors: David Alderson (University of Manchester), Catherine Clay (Nottingham Trent University), Tony Crowley (University of Leeds), Emily Cuming (University of Leeds), Kristin Ewins (Örebro University), Ben Harker (University of Manchester), Angela Kershaw (University of Birmingham), Stan Smith (Nottingham Trent University). Editorial Advisory Board: John Brannigan (University College Dublin), Peter Brooker (University of Nottingham), John Connor (Colgate University, NY), Terry Eagleton (National University of Ireland Galway and Lancaster University), John Higgins (University of Cape Town), Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University, New York), Peter Marks (University of Sydney), Sean Matthews (University of Nottingham), Jim McGuigan (Loughborough University), Andrew Milner (Monash University), Meaghan Morris (Lingnan University), Morag Shiach (Queen Mary, University of London), Dai Smith (Swansea University), Nick Stevenson (University of Nottingham), John Storey (University of Sunderland), Will Straw (McGill University), Jenny Bourne Taylor (University of Sussex), John Tomlinson (Nottingham Trent University), Jeff Wallace (Cardiff Metropolitan University), Imelda Whelehan (University of Tasmania), Vicki Whittaker (Publishing Advisor). Contributions for prospective inclusion in Key Words should comply with the style notes printed on pp. 172–4 of this issue, and should be sent in electronic form to Catherine Clay, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, at [email protected]. Books and other items for review should be sent to Angela Kershaw, Department of French Studies, College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Key Words is a publication of The Raymond Williams Society (website: www.raymondwilliams.co.uk). Contributions copyright © The Raymond Williams Society 2015. All rights reserved. Cover design by Andrew Dawson. Printed by Russell Press, Nottingham. Distributed by Central Books Ltd, London. ISSN 1369-9725 ISBN 978-0-9929916-1-6 Contents Editors’ Preface 5 Obituary: Professor Simon Dentith 8 Introduction: Queerwords: Sexuality and the Politics of Culture 11 David Alderson Queers and Class: Toward a Cultural Politics of Friendship 17 Lisa Henderson Is the Queen Dead? Effeminacy, Homosociality and the Post-Homophobic Queer 39 Stephen Maddison Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t Have?): Punk, Politics and Same-Sex Passion 57 David Wilkinson Queer Romances with Fascism 77 David Alderson People of the Black Mountains and the Politics of Theory 94 John Connor Uses of Shelley in Working-Class Culture: Approximations and Substitutions 117 Jen Morgan Back in the CCCS: Portraits of Alumni from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies by Mahasiddhi (aka Roy Peters), University of Birmingham 138 Claire MacLeod Peters Keywords 141 Tony Crowley Recoveries 144 Elinor Taylor and Stephen Rogers Contents Reviews 149 Notes on Contributors 166 Raymond Williams Foundation (RWF) 169 Open-Access Policy 171 Style Notes for Contributors 172 Editors’ Preface The larger part of the current issue, guest-edited by David Alderson, examines the relationship between queer theory/politics and the Left in the context of prevailing neoliberal conditions in the West which have weakened working-class solidarity and opposition to a capitalist culture. Preparing this issue for press following the Conservative Party’s unexpected majority win in Britain’s recent General Election, the assertion, in David Wilkinson’s article, that ‘it would be not simply irresponsible but also fatal for queers and countercultural forces to abandon the notion of a future which might also be won by a reconfigured left’ carries a renewed sense of urgency. If the ‘sexual revolution’ of the 1960s has been divested of its radical potential by mass-market commodification and incorporation into the mainstream, the contemporary politics of queer radicalism – these articles suggest – still preserve the possibility of social change. To complement this search for a ‘renewed affinity in hard times […] rooted […] in queer and class difference and shared cultural will’ (Linda Henderson, this issue), we publish two further articles which take up Raymond Williams’s commitment in both his critical and fictional work to building ‘resources for a journey of hope’ (Towards 2000, 1983). Questions relating to the experience of defeat and the condition of surviving are at the heart of John Connor’s new and eloquent reading of Williams’s historical novel trilogy People of the Black Mountains; Jen Morgan’s article, on the transmission and reception of Shelley’s poetry within Owenite socialism and Chartism, evidences the kind of detailed historical work currently being conducted in the field of periodicals/print culture research that can help us to understand the complexity of political and cultural change at precise moments in our collective history. Morgan’s article was the winning entry in the third Raymond Williams Society Postgraduate Essay Competition, which we have renamed the Simon Dentith Memorial Prize in honour of our sorely missed colleague, Simon Dentith (1952– 2014), who died in November last year. Simon joined the editorial board of Key Words in 2010 and during these past five years we have benefited enormously from his passionate intellectual and practical commitment to all aspects of the work of both the journal and the Raymond Williams Society. As well as playing a central role in the journal’s commissioning and review processes, Simon provided instrumental advice in the development of our open-access policy (published in this issue), served as a competition judge for the RWS postgraduate essay prize and up until his death was working on a gazetteer of the Black Mountains fictions for the RWS website at the same time as completing his last book, Nineteenth- Century British Literature Then and Now: Reading with Hindsight (2014), reviewed in the present issue. It was entirely in character that he kept up his work for the Key Words 13 (2015), pp. 5–7 Editors’ Preface journal and the Society until the very end, which is why we have retained his name in the list of editors for the present issue. We publish an obituary article in this issue, which we dedicate to his memory. Two other members of the editorial board depart with the present issue, Elizabeth Allen and Sarah Davison, and we would like to record our thanks for their valuable contribution to Key Words during their time with us. We are joined by Emily Cuming, Research Fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds, and David Alderson, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester and guest editor of the current issue. Emily has already made a dynamic contribution to the visibility of Key Words through the creation of a Facebook page which will provide regular updates on forthcoming issues of the journal, along with links to RWS information and related activities and articles. Members are encouraged to boost our social media presence by signing up to the Key Words Facebook page, which can be found at the following address: www.facebook.com/keywordsjournal. We have also recently revamped the RWS website: www.raymondwilliams.co.uk. The growing profile of research grounded in the tradition of cultural materialism is also reflected in the Raymond Williams Now conference in May this year. Organised by the Greater Manchester-based Radical Studies Network and supported by, among others, the Raymond Williams Society and the Raymond Williams Foundation, this was the first substantial conference devoted to Raymond Williams’s work and legacy for some time, bringing in new generations of scholars and activists. Subjects covered linguistics, drama, philosophy, the visual arts, literature, social formations and intellectual history. The much praised keynote by Tony Crowley, on linguistics as constitutive of Williams’s project, considered modern keywords such as ‘chav’ and the instrumentalising discourse of today’s university management. Another high point of the conference was the talk and film of the performance art piece ‘Performing Keywords’ by the artist Ruth Beale, a project devised in a workshop with members of Turner Contemporary’s Studio Group. Its contributors explored through performance the links between salient terms from Williams’s Keywords. The day was attended by nearly eighty people, who took seriously the hope that the conference would explore the relevance of Williams now, both as an intellectual stimulus to current academic research and as a resource to confront some of the grimmer aspects of our own political and cultural situation. We hope to publish selected worked-up papers from this conference in future issues of Key Words. The 2014 Annual Raymond Williams Society Lecture was given by Kate Lacey, Professor of Media History and Theory at the University of Sussex, on the topic of ‘Listening: A Keyword Overlooked’, impressively tracing the history of listening through the more collective nature of early radio to today’s 6 Editors’ Preface often individualistic, selective, pod-style mode of listening. The venue afforded spectacular views across the Brighton seafront. This year’s Annual Lecture
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