Erscheint: April 2027
Buch (Softcover): Fachbuch
Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism
Verlag:
Ohio State University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36707199
EAN: 9780814259597
Erscheint: April 2027
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 58.–
Beschreibung
Can queer life be ordinary. By answering "yes," Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism. prompts queer studies to consider what it has long devalued and neglected: the ordinary lives queer people create. Declining to cede the ordinary to queer studies' critique of the normal, Jess Shollenberger argues for and models a reading practice that is attuned to queer desires, figures, and intimacies arrayed against the normal yet enabled by ordinary life. By tracing the representation of queerness in modernist literature as presence, possibility, and insistence, Shollenberger illuminates how the modernist interest in ordinary life cannot be understood apart from queer experience, culture, and aesthetics. Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism. disturbs queer studies by turning toward the ordinary as an object for queer inquiry and by reading perversely without. the dominant hermeneutic for queer literary studies-the closet. Across interpretations of work by Sarah Orne Jewett, Gertrude Stein, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Elizabeth Bishop, Shollenberger develops the practice of reading modernist writing without the closet, expanding the scope of modernist studies and augmenting our knowledge of queerness for a shifting, unstable present.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jess Shollenberger
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2027
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 182