“Our Book of Revelation . . . Prescribes Our Fate and Releases Us from It”: Scriptural Disorientations in Cherríe Moraga’s The Last Generation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction. Queer Disorientations: Four Turns and a Twist 1
4. How Soon Is (This Apocalypse) Now? Queer Velocities after a Corinthian Already and a Pauline Not Yet 45
5. Unbinding Imperial Time: Chrononormativity and Paul’s Letter to the Romans 68
6. The Futures Outside: Apocalyptic Epilogue Unveiled as Africana Queer Prologue 90
7. “Our Book of Revelation . . . Prescribes Our Fate and Releases Us from It”: Scriptural Disorientations in Cherríe Moraga’s The Last Generation 113
8. Queer Persistence: On Death, History, and Longing for Endings 133
9. Who Weeps for the Sodomite? 145
10. “They Had No Rest from This Torment”: Encountering the Apocalypse of Peter 161
11. Excess and the Enactment of Queer Time: Futurity, Failure, and Formation in Feminist Theologies 178
12. The Madness of Holy Saturday: Bipolar Temporality and the Queerdom of Heaven on Earth 195
13. The Entrepreneur and the Big Drag: Risky Affirmation in Capital’s Time 218
14. Queer Structures of Religious Feeling: What Time Is Now? 240
15. More Than a Feeling: A Queer Notion of Survivance 258
16. Remember—When? 277
17. Response: Queer Enfleshment 292
18. In Search of Queer Theology Lost 296
19. Response: To Mark Jordan’s “In Search of Queer Theology Lost” 309
20. Afterword 315
21. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 321
22. CONTRIBUTORS 323
23. INDEX 329