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Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies

Author : Sam See
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287009
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies written by Sam See and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013. In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities. With essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffat.

Queer Mythologies

Author : Dimple Godiwala
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Queer Mythologies written by Dimple Godiwala and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pam Gems is a popular playwright produced often at the West End and has a widespread appeal by being on the pulse of cultural iconology. Her characters are metaphors for contemporary women and men and she often 'herstoricizes'. This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title 'Queer Mythologies'.

Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle

Author : Fraser Riddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108839207
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle written by Fraser Riddell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of music and queer identities in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century English literature.

The Gorgon Verses

Author : Trey Moonwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781678174248
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Gorgon Verses written by Trey Moonwood and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenged to live queer in this world, inspired by ancient myths and sacred stories, and fed by the deep nourishment of nature's beauty, The Gorgon Verses is the product of a long personal journey of writing poetry and digging deeply into the dark recesses of the soul. "showing never one thing alone, but always two at least, meeting place of the half-moon rising in that fertile, purple dusk that blooms each day and each darkness." --- from Metamorphoses, The Gorgon Verses

Queer Ancient Ways

Author : Zairong Xiang
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1947447939
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Queer Ancient Ways written by Zairong Xiang and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources. In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves. An exercise in decolonial learning-to-learn from non-Western and non-modern cosmologies, Xiang's work uncovers a rich queer imaginary that had been all-but-lost to modern thought, in the process critically revealing the operations of modern/colonial systems of gender/sexuality and knowledge-formation that have functioned, from the Conquista de America in the sixteenth century to the present, to keep these systems in obscurity. At the heart of Xiang's argument is an account of the way the unfounded feminization of figures such as the Babylonian (co)creatrix Tiamat, and the Nahua creator-figures Tlaltecuhtli and Coatlicue, is complicit with their monstrification. This complicity tells us less about the mythologies themselves than about the dualistic system of gender and sexuality within which they have been studied, underpinned by a consistent tendency in modern/colonial thought to insist on unbridgeable categorical differences. By contextualizing these deities in their respective mythological, linguistic, and cultural environments, through a unique combination of methodologies and critical traditions in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl, Xiang departs from the over-reliance of much contemporary queer theory on European (post)modern thought. Much more than a queering of the non-Western and non-modern, Queer Ancient Ways thus constitutes a decolonial and transdisciplinary engagement with ancient cosmologies and ways of thought which are in the process themselves revealed as theoretical sources of and for the queer imagination.

Performance All the Way Down

Author : Richard O. Prum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226829782
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Performance All the Way Down written by Richard O. Prum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We are living through a time of enormous cultural change involving broad reconsideration of ideas about individual sex, gender, their boundaries, their meanings, and their mutabilities. There is a growing realization of the diversity of lived gender identities and sexual experiences. Performance All the Way Down is a manifesto for today. It initiates needed dialogue between feminist thought and the science of sex by explaining all the avenues of sexual differentiation from zygote to gendered adult to argue, with an absorbing clarity, against the existence of the sexual binary. Richard O. Prum, author of The Evolution of Beauty, turns his attention in this book from beauty to sex. What is sex? And what does it mean, scientifically, to question the essentialist, binary concept of sex? Performance All the Way Down poses a new view on these complex questions. For Prum argues that the ways in which a single-celled, fertilized zygote becomes a complex, conscious organism with gender and sexual behavior is best described scientifically as a complex performative continuum. His idea of the performative phenotype challenges the twentieth century isolation of developmental biology from evolutionary biology and the strict conception of gene-level selection, providing an alternative view of what being genetic actually means"--

The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature

Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003834124
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature written by Thomas Hughes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre. Chapters trace the Victorian idyll’s emergence in the 1830s, its flourishing in the 1860s, and its evolution up to the century’s close, drawing attention to the radicalism of idyllic experiments with pictorial, photographic, dramatic, literary, and poetic form in the work of canonical and lesser-known figures. Approaching the idyll through three intersecting categories—subject, ecology, and form—this book remaps Victorian culture, reshaping thinking about artistic form in the nineteenth century, and recalibrating accepted chronologies. In the representations by a host of Victorian artists and writers engaging with other-than-human forms, and in the natures of the subjectivities animated by these encounters, we find versions of Victorian ecology providing provocative imaginative material for ecocritics, scholars, writers, and artists today. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, English literature, Victorian studies, British history, queer and trans* theory, musicology, and ecocriticism, and will enliven debates pertaining to the environmental across periods.

Aging Moderns

Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556004
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Aging Moderns written by Scott Herring and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging. Aging Moderns provides portraits of writers and artists who sought out or employed unconventional methods and collaborations up until the early twenty-first century. Herring finds Djuna Barnes performing the principles of high modernism not only in poetry but also in pharmacy orders and grocery lists. In mystery novels featuring Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas along with modernist souvenir collections, the gay writer Samuel Steward elaborated a queer theory of aging and challenged gay male ageism. The Harlem Renaissance dancer Mabel Hampton dispelled stereotypes about aging through her queer of color performances at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Herring explores Ivan Albright’s magic realist portraits of elders, Tillie Olsen’s writings on the aging female worker, and the surrealistic works made by Charles Henri Ford and his caregiver Indra Bahadur Tamang at the Dakota apartment building in New York City. Showcasing previously unpublished experimental art and writing, this deeply interdisciplinary book unites new modernist studies, American studies, disability studies, and critical age studies. Aging Moderns rethinks assumptions about literary creativity, the depiction of old age, and the boundaries of modernism.

Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

Author : Bobby Xinyue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350257249
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies written by Bobby Xinyue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology, hierarchy and politics. Examining a diverse range of texts from Homeric epic to eighteenth-century poems on the Last Judgement, this collection of essays contends that temporality in literature sits at the heart of how authors from antiquity through to the early modern period understood and negotiated the structures that shaped their lives and may shape lives to come. Approaching the topic through four themes, the essays in this volume highlight the ways in which time is construed as relational, contestable and politically inflected. The authors show that variations in temporalities enable texts to critique the interactions or tensions between tradition and change, agency and determinism, social system and individual experience. The result is a refreshing approach to literary figurations of time that responds to the recent 'temporal turn' in the humanities, engages with current critical trends (such as ontological analysis and ecological criticism), and opens up an exciting new direction for future research on the connection between time, text, and context.

Victorian Ethical Optics

Author : Natalie Prizel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192888560
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Ethical Optics written by Natalie Prizel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the way that characters and figures in Victorian literature and visual art encountered and observed the bodies of others, particularly those bodies which were aberrant, deformed, and disabled.

Speculative Time

Author : Paul Crosthwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198891792
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Speculative Time written by Paul Crosthwaite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative Time examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and crisis-prone temporalities had major impacts on writing in the period, and on important aspects of visual representation.

Notework

Author : Simon Reader
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503627977
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Notework written by Simon Reader and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century. Neither drafts nor diaries, the notes of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Vernon Lee, and George Gissing record ephemeral and nonlinear experiences, revealing each author's desire to leave their fragments scattered and unused. Presenting notes in terms of genre allows Reader to suggest inventive new accounts of key Victorian texts, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, On the Origin of Species, and Hopkins's devotional lyrics, and to reinterpret these works as meditations on the ethics of compiling and using data. In this way, Notework recasts information collection as a personal and expressive activity that comes into focus against large-scale systems of knowledge organization. Finding resonance between today's digital culture and its nineteenth-century precursors, Reader honors our most disposable, improvised, and fleeting written gestures.

The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender

Author : James Reddan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000591514
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender written by James Reddan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe. Such interrogation requires consideration of gender from multiple viewpoints, from scholars and artists at various points in their careers. This edited collection of 38 essays gathers the diverse perspectives of contributors from four continents, exploring the nuanced (and at times controversial) construct of gender as it relates to jazz music, in the past and present, in four parts: Historical Perspectives Identity and Culture Society and Education Policy and Advocacy Acknowledging the art form’s troubled relationship with gender, contributors seek to define the construct to include all possible definitions—not only female and male—without binary limitations, contextualizing gender and jazz in both place and time. As gender identity becomes an increasingly important consideration in both education and scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender provides a broad and inclusive resource of research for the academic community, addressing an urgent need to reconcile the construct of gender in jazz in all its forms.

Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend

Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : Radar
ISBN 13 : 1804190454
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend written by Dan Jones and published by Radar. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (explored in Madeleine Miller's bestseller Song of Achilles), join the cult of Antinous (inspiration for Oscar Wilde), get down with pansexual god Set in Egyptian myth, and fall for Zimbabwe's trans God Mawi. And from modern pop-culture, through Dan Jones's witty, upbeat style, learn more about 90s fan obsessions Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Neil Gaiman's American Gods and the BBC's Doctor Who. Queer Heroes of Myth & Legend brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.

Queer as Folklore

Author : SACHA. COWARD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800183360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Queer as Folklore written by SACHA. COWARD and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically inclusive celebration of the untold queer histories within myth and folklore. Join any Pride march and you are likely to see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads trailing sequins, drag queens wearing mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. But these are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. Queer as Folklore is an exhilarating journey across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new. Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward will take you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies and the graves of the 'queerly departed' along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows, found kinship in the in-between and created safe spaces in underworlds; but these forgotten narratives tell stories of remarkable resilience that deserve to be heard. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past and Queer as Folklore is a celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.

The New Queer Conscience

Author : Adam Eli
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593093682
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The New Queer Conscience written by Adam Eli and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2021 Sydney Taylor Notable Book "The new manifesto for how we as queer people could and should navigate the world. It's the holding hand I never had--but wish I did."--Troye Sivan, Golden Globe nominated-singer, songwriter, and actor "With the persistence of queerphobia all around the world, this book is absolutely necessary, even vital."--Édouard Louis, internationally bestselling author of History of Violence "To Eli's credit, all of the rules are rooted in considerations of conscience and kindness and, if observed, will make a better world--as will this book."--Booklist, starred review "A must-read that highlights the importance of radical empathy, community building, and solidarity."--School Library Journal, starred review In The New Queer Conscience, LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility -- that queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, The New Queer Conscience, Voices4 Founder and LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli offers a candid and compassionate introduction to queer responsibility. Eli calls on his Jewish faith to underline how kindness and support within the queer community can lead to a stronger global consciousness. More importantly, he reassures us that we're not alone. In fact, we never were. Because if you mess with one queer, you mess with us all.

Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation

Author : Dustin Bradley Goltz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135168865
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation written by Dustin Bradley Goltz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah’s Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and Dawson’s Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed upon "young" gay male bodies, while devaluing health, aging, and longevity. Alienated from the future -- outside of limited and exclusionary systems of marriage and procreation -- the gay male is narrated within a circular tragedy that draws upon cultural mythologies of "older" gay male predation, the absence of gay intergenerational mentorship, and the gay male as sacrificial victim. Using a Burkean framework, Goltz makes a theoretical, rhetorical, and cultural investigation of how the increased visibility of "positive" gay representation in dominant media shapes contemporary meanings of gay aging, heteronormative future, homonormative future, and queer potential.