Gothic queer culture: marginalized communities and the ghosts of insidious trauma
In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought - including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction,...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Lincoln
University of Nebraska Press
[2019]
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| Dans: | Année: 2019 |
| Collection/Revue: | Expanding frontiers: Interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Art
/ Littérature
/ Esthétique
/ Culture de masse
/ Mouvement gothique (Culture)
/ Théorie queer
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Gay culture
B Gothique (Subculture) B Goth culture (Subculture) B Culture homosexuelle |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought - including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performance - Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic. Gothic Queer Culture examines the material effects of marginalization, exclusion, and violence and explains why discourse around the complexities of genders and sexualities repeatedly returns to the gothic. Westengard places this queer knowledge production within a larger framework of gothic queer culture, which inherently includes theoretical texts, art, literature, performance, and popular culture. By analyzing queer knowledge production alongside other forms of queer culture, Gothic Queer Culture enters into the most current conversations on the state of gender and sexuality, especially debates surrounding negativity, anti-relationalism, assimilation, and neoliberalism. It provides a framework for understanding these debates in the context of a distinctly gothic cultural mode that acknowledges violence and insidious trauma, depathologizes the association between trauma and queerness, and offers a rich counterhegemonic cultural aesthetic through the circulation of gothic tropes |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 262 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1496217446 |
