Performing Queer Modernism
Author | : Penny Farfan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780190679699 |
ISBN-13 | : 0190679697 |
Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Download or read book Performing Queer Modernism written by Penny Farfan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: performing queer modernism -- "This feverish, jealous attachment of Paula's for Eellean": homosocial desire and the production of queer modernism -- "Fairy of light": performative ghosting and the queer uncanny -- "Without the assistance of any girls": queer sex and the shock of the new -- "I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives": popular Plato, queer heterosexuality, comic form -- "What are you trying to say?" "I'm saying it": queer performativity in and across time -- Epilogue: "what is termed sin is an essential element of progress