Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry: Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture

Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry: Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
23 May 2019
Pages
184
ISBN
9780367199159

Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry: Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating notions of silence, misunderstanding, pleasure, and even affects of phobia in artworks and texts, the essays in this volume propose new and surprising ways of understanding the difficulty-even failure-of the epistemology of the closet. By treating queer not as an identity but as an activity, this book represents a divergence from previous approaches associated with Lesbian and Gay Studies. The authors in this anthology refute the interpretive ease of binaries such as out versus closeted and gay versus straight, and recognize a more opaque relationship of identity to pleasure. The essays range in focus from photography, painting, and film to poetry, Biblical texts, lesbian humor, and even botany. Evaluating the most recent critical theories and introducing them in close examinations of objects and texts, this book queers the study of verse and visual culture in new and exciting ways.

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