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 difficultyāeven failureāof 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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Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry
Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture
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Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture
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ArtSubtopic
History of ArtTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Introduction: queer difficulty, difficult queers
- 1 Bohemians of the vegetable world
- 2 The consequences of dating Don Leon
- 3 The Song of Songs for difficult queers: Simeon Solomon, Neil Bartlett, and A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep
- 4 Ingresās line
- 5 āI am a photographer, not a lesbianā: Berenice Abbottās visibility
- 6 Naked politics: the art of Eros 1955ā1975
- 7 The Blatant Image, lesbian identity, and visual pleasure
- 8 For/against homoeroticism: posing difficulty for the habitual decoders of desire
- 9 Ladies Almanack showing their Satire and Irony; Sorrow and Sentimentality; Ridiculousness in relation to Sexual Identity; as well as reflections on Alison Bechdelās Fun Homeā or, Notes not on āCampā
- 10 Now and (n)ever: Robert Goberās beeswax time machines
- 11 Hip openers: on the visuals of gendering athleticism
- 12 The perils and pleasures of drinking in Will Self and Herman Melville
- Index
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