Queer Autobibliography : Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patra, Umasankar.

Series:

Routledge Auto/Biography Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986--Criticism and interpretation.

Isherwood, Christopher.

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986--Books and reading.

White, Edmund, 1940-2025--Criticism and interpretation.

White, Edmund.

White, Edmund, 1940-2025--Books and reading.

Gay authors--Biography--History and criticism.

Gay authors.

Sexual minorities--Biography--History and criticism.

Sexual minorities.

Books in literature.

Autobiography.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

Queer Autobibliography undertakes a novel mode of analysis by coupling queer theory and autobiography studies by mobilizing current scholarship on queer relationality, queer time and narrative theory that will delimit the precincts of autobiography studies and queer theory.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Notes

1 Queer Autobibliography: Ethics of Lifewriting

2 Pausing the Narrative: Queer Time in Prater Violet and My Lives

3 Readers and Reading: Queer Sociality in Down There on a Visit and A Previous Life

4 Aestheticization of Queer Desire: Queer Writing in Lost Years and The Loves of My Life

5 "Perhaps Because I Lived in a World Made of Words": Autobibliography in Isherwood and White

Coda

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-067792-4

1-003-56047-4

1-04-058645-7

9781003560470

OCLC:

1581934008