Gothic Queer Culture - Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma

Informationen zum Autor Laura Westengard is an associate professor of English at the New York City College of Technology, City University of New York.   Klappentext Laura Westengard is an associate professor of English at the New York City College of Technology, City University of New York. ¿ Zusammenfassung Proposes that contemporary US queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought, Westengard argues that a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Queer Cultures and Insidious Trauma 1. Haunted Epistemologies: Gothic Queer Theory 2. Live Burial: Lesbian Pulp and the “Containment Crypt” 3. Monstrosity: Melancholia, Cannibalism, and HIV/AIDS 4. Sadomasochism: Strategic Discomfort in Trans* and Queer of Color Performance Art Conclusion: The Challenges of Neoliberalism Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Laura Westengard
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781496202048
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0204-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories