Bouncing Back: Queer Resilience in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English Literature and Culture

Bouncing Back: Queer Resilience in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English Literature and Culture

By Susanne Jung
Paperback $45.00

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Publication Date: 2nd June 2020

LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analyzing these strategies in terms of narration, performance, bodies, and space. Read More
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LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analyzing these strategies in terms of narration, performance, bodies, and space. Read More
Description
LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analysing these strategies in terms of narration, performance, bodies, and space. Resilience turns out to be a highly interactive mode of being in the world, which can set free creative energy as well as draw inspiration and energy from artistic work. Authors and artists discussed include Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Isherwood, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jeanette Winterson, Michael Cunningham, and Ian McKellen.
Details
  • Price: $45.00
  • Pages: 244
  • Carton Quantity: 32
  • Publisher: transcript publishing
  • Imprint: transcript publishing
  • Series: Queer Studies
  • Publication Date: 2nd June 2020
  • Trim Size: 5.83 x 8.86 in
  • ISBN: 9783837650273
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies
    LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Reviews
»›Bouncing Back‹ will be of great interest to queer scholars, with many ideas that can inform further research on LGBTIQ+ literature and cultural studies.«
- Noah Riseman, Anglistik, 31/1 (2020)
Author Bio
Susanne Jung, born in 1975, received her doctorate in English literature from the University of Tübingen. She studied English literature, musicology and pharmacy at universities in Tübingen, Norwich, and San Francisco.
Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction 9
Narrative Strategies 33
The Art of Queer Emptiness 87
Performative Strategies 111
Spatial Strategies 145
Bodily Strategies 183
Conclusion 217
Credits 221
Works Cited 223

LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analysing these strategies in terms of narration, performance, bodies, and space. Resilience turns out to be a highly interactive mode of being in the world, which can set free creative energy as well as draw inspiration and energy from artistic work. Authors and artists discussed include Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Isherwood, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jeanette Winterson, Michael Cunningham, and Ian McKellen.
  • Price: $45.00
  • Pages: 244
  • Carton Quantity: 32
  • Publisher: transcript publishing
  • Imprint: transcript publishing
  • Series: Queer Studies
  • Publication Date: 2nd June 2020
  • Trim Size: 5.83 x 8.86 in
  • ISBN: 9783837650273
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies
    LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
»›Bouncing Back‹ will be of great interest to queer scholars, with many ideas that can inform further research on LGBTIQ+ literature and cultural studies.«
– Noah Riseman, Anglistik, 31/1 (2020)
Susanne Jung, born in 1975, received her doctorate in English literature from the University of Tübingen. She studied English literature, musicology and pharmacy at universities in Tübingen, Norwich, and San Francisco.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction 9
Narrative Strategies 33
The Art of Queer Emptiness 87
Performative Strategies 111
Spatial Strategies 145
Bodily Strategies 183
Conclusion 217
Credits 221
Works Cited 223