Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction

Benjamin Bateman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289633-9 (ISBN)

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Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first-century queer literary production. The study theorizes a "perish-performative" that allows for agency in practices of abeyance, and it discovers within queerness's ample archive of vanishing acts an environmental ethos antithetical to inflationary versions of the human. Tying modernist classics by E.M. Forster and Willa Cather to Andrew Holleran's gay classic Dancer from the Dance, and then moving to the contemporary ecogothic of Lydia Millet's How the Dead Dream and the trans decadence of Shola von Reinhold's Lote, the book refuses the common wisdom that queerness becomes louder and prouder over time, delineating instead a minimalist and daydreaming subjectivity wherein queerness finds escape, respite, and varied opportunities for imaginative reverie. This precarious subjectivity, necessitated but not defined by oppression and obstacle, rewards and restores the queer self, and it also contests the logics of development, acquisition, and productivity that wreak havoc on the planet and entrench social disparities of race, class, and ability. Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction supplies multiple accounts of the collective and personal pleasures, possibilities, and perils to be found in pulling away, going missing, and taking a break.

Benjamin Bateman is Senior Lecturer in Post-1900 British Literature at The University of Edinburgh and author of The Modernist Art of Queer Survival (OUP, 2017). He previously held a joint appointment in English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University Los Angeles, where he also served as Director of The Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities. Benjamin received his BA and PhD from The University of Virginia.

Introduction: On Desire and Diminution
1: Avian, Anal, Outlaw: Queer Ecology in E.M. Forster's Maurice
2: Willa Cather's Cancel Culture
3: Disappearing and Resurfacing: Visions of Queer Community in Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance
4: A Flattened Protagonist: Sleep and Environmental Mitigation in Lydia Millet's How the Dead Dream
5: Disappearing Flesh in Shola von Reinhold's Lote
Conclusion: On Birds and Black Life

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 224 mm
Gewicht	388 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-289633-4 / 0192896334
ISBN-13	978-0-19-289633-9 / 9780192896339
Zustand	Neuware