Queer disappearance in modern and contemporary fiction / Benjamin Bateman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bateman, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first-century queer literary production.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: On Desire, Diminution, and the Perish-Performative

1. Avian, Anal, OutlawQueer Ecology in E.M. Forster's Maurice

Avian

Anal

Outlaw

Avian End

2. Cather's Cancel Culture

3. Disappearing and ResurfacingVisions of Queer Community in Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance

Dancing and Social Distancing

A Cloud Over the Dance Floor

M(alone)

Not M(alone)

Malone and Melancholia

Malone's Legacy

4. A Flattened ProtagonistSleep and Environmental Mitigation in Lydia Millet's How the Dead Dream

5. Disappearing Flesh in Shola von Reinhold's Lote

Conclusion: On Birds and Black Life

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Bateman, Benjamin Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction

ISBN:

0-19-191877-6

0-19-265015-7

0-19-265014-9