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Queer map paintings exist as multimodal aesthetic objects that help to narrate queer space and time. This entry develops this idea by focusing on how Gio Black Peter’s map paintings evoke simultaneously the joys and apprehensions of movement and stability for racially diverse and queer figures in the USA and in New York City in particular. Peter’s maps, both semantic and figural objects, offer a valuable guide to rereading New York as a space nominally unified though in actuality composed of distinct yet interconnected and overlapping environs that offer different routes or storylines for being queer in the contemporary world.
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Deutsch, D. (2021). Gio Black Peter’s Sublime Subway Maps: Reading the Routes of a Queer New York City. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_287-1
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