Queer writing Flashcards
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Queer writing
Characteristics (6)
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- Queer politics + 3rd wave feminism+ Gay and Lesbian Liberation
- Literature: recovery of gay/lesbian tradition
-“Queering” high literary tradition
- Queer subtext - Rescuing neglected authors
- Radclife Hall
- J.R. Ackerley
- Parker Tyler
- Charles Henri Ford - Uncovering “gay/lesbian” subplots in non-gay/-lesbian identified authors.
- Anthologizing
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Queer writing
Gay/lesbian fiction
- Characteristics (5)
- Style
- Antecedents
- Authors (4)
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- Assimilationist.
- Politically non-confrontational.
- Often centered on love stories, everydayness, family (expanded, non-normative ones)
- No longer about isolation, exile, marginality.
- Ocassional incursions into popular genre (detection, vampire fiction…)
Style: standard realism (elegant, refined diction)
Antecedents: Henry James, Willa Cather, E.M Foster, André Gide
Authors
- Edmund White
“A Boy’s Own Story”
“The Beautiful Room is Empty”
“The Farewell Symphony” - Rita May Brown
“Rubyfruit Jungle”
“Southern Discomfort”
“Riding Shotgun”
Mrs Murphy mystery series - David Leavitt
“Family Dancing”
“The Lost Language of Cranes”
“The Page Turner”
“The Indian Clerk” - Tony Kushner
“Angles in America: A Gay Fantasy on National Themes”
“Henry Box Brown, or the Mirror of Slavery”
“Homebody/Kabul”
“Lincoln”
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Queer writing
Queer writing
- Characteristics (4)
- Antecedents
- Authors
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Characteristics
- Antiassimilationist
- Politically confrontational
- Depicts unconventional lifestyles and sexualities ( + outlaw protagonists)
- Experimental style, narrative structure.
Antecedents: Jean Genet, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg
Authors
- Sarah Schulman
“Girls, Visions and Everything”
“After Delores”
“People in Trouble”
“The Cosmopolitans” - Dennis Cooper
“Safe”
“Wrong”
“God Jr”
“Zack’s Haunted House” - David Wojnarowicz
“Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”
“Memories that Smell Like Gasoline”
“The Waterfront Journals
