"You guys and your cute little categories": Torchwood, the space-time rift and Cardiff's postmodern, postcolonial and (avowedly) pansexual gothic

Blake, L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2630-3053 (2009) "You guys and your cute little categories": Torchwood, the space-time rift and Cardiff's postmodern, postcolonial and (avowedly) pansexual gothic. The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (7). pp. 16-22. ISSN 2009-0374

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Abstract

This article is about Russell T. Davies’s decidedly grown-up Dr Who spin off Torchwood and Cardiff, the city in which it’s set: specifically the ways in which two seasons of inveterately Welsh misadventures in science fiction depict Cardiff as a pansexually and a decidedly postcolonial gothic location; a site at which historically embedded discourses of identity politics (specifically those to do with sexuality and nationhood) are purposefully deconstructed - with often hilarious, or wildly erotic, or erotically wild and hilarious consequences.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	02 Mar 2010 14:39
Publisher:	Trinity College, Dublin
Additional Information:	Full text of this article is available at http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/Torchwood.html
Divisions:	Faculties > Arts and Humanities Research Centres > Creative Writing, English Literature and Linguistics
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/93417
ISSN	2009-0374

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