'Genre' seems to be a key term for Berlant. She speaks of 'genres' as particular modes of emplotment that imply different narrative arcs, outcomes, etc to which we grow attached.
Halberstam shares this interest, but seems to have a preference for conceptual personae, figures that she uses to understand the implication of certain positions.
Like Benjamin's personae (the dandy, the collector, the flaneur) or those of Deleuze and Guattari, Halberstam's personae derive from fiction, and often from popular culture.
Two key figures interest me: the figure of 'the child' (which also played a role in Berlant's reading of the films of the brothers Dardenne), and the figure of the 'queer punk.'
(Harlberstam's figure of the child stands, I think, in opposition to Lee Edelman's notion of the Child, as he develops it in his book No Future.)
The child and the punk are both figures of the non-serious, of infantility, negativity, adolescence, refusal, etc.
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