Queer Troublemakers - The Poetics of Flippancy

Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the ''queer troublemaker'' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O''Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.>

Product details

• Authors: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2021
• EAN: 9781350215429
• ISBN: 978-1-350-21542-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gay & Lesbian studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics