Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Bateman, Benjamin (Lecturer Bateman, Benjamin (Senior Lecturer Bateman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2023
• EAN: 9780192896339
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289633-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gay & Lesbian studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form