Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influen…
Freedom to want -- "Debt work" -- Solidarity as settler absolution -- Veteran diversity, veteran asynchrony -- Invasion love plots and antiblack acoustics. "Beginning with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, prominent literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian…