Contemporary Queer Modernism is a collection of scholarship that offers a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the intersections of queer studies and modernist studies. It is invaluable to scholars and students of modernism and queer theory across disciplines, including literary studies, cultural studies and theatre.
Contemporary Queer Modernism offers a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the intersections of queer studies and modernist studies.
The theoretical expansiveness and mutual overlapping of these still-growing fields is both introduced and complicated in the pages of this volume. Presenting a wide range of critical perspectives, the collection brings together original scholarship from both emerging and established scholars that, when read together, demonstrates the continued vitality of queer modernist studies. The book is divided into 5 parts:
· Temporality
· Form
· Embodiment
· Networks
· Affect and Atmosphere
Contemporary Queer Modernism is a foundational collection that will be invaluable to scholars and students studying modernism and queer theory across a range of disciplines, including gender and sexuality studies, literary studies, cultural studies and theatre.
Introduction Part One: Temporality
1. The Queerness of Modernist
Temporality: Modernist Literature, Sexual Science, and Queer Temporality
2.
Dream Friend: Sexology, Child Study, and the Queer Imaginary Companion
3.
Paris was a Lesbian: Womens Liberation and the Re-Queering of Modernism
4.
Posthumous Queer Modernism Part Two: Form
5. The Translucent Closet
6. Queer
Formalism as Modernist Form, Modernist Form as Queer Formalism
7. The Lyric
of Queer Modernisms
8. The first duty in life is to be as artificial as
possible: Queer Subversions of Life Writing
9. Geometric Kinship: Sensuous
Abstraction and the Accumulation of Forms in Black Queer Kineaesthetics Part
Three: Embodiment
10. A Queer Indefinite Way: Richard Bruce Nugent, Nella
Larsen, and New Negro Indeterminacy
11. So Queer Yet So Straight: Japans
First Female Director(s)
12. They Were Right There Together: Black Abundance
in Home to Harlem and Vernacular Indifference to Sexological Expertise
13.
Queer Modernist Animals
14. The Rediscovery of Margaret Hoening French Part
Four: Networks
15. Out of Alignment: Queer Modernisms Anarchist Legacy
16.
The Paupers Salon: Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Lumpenproletariat
17.
Modernism and the Queer Theory of Diaspora
18. On View: A Queer Theory of
Modernist Practice
19. Queer or Describe? Alan Hollinghurst and the
Bloomsbury Group Part Five: Affect and Atmosphere
20. Promiscuous Spaces: The
Bookshop and Queer Eclecticism
21. Vaporous Vows: Queer Weather in Claude
Hartlands Story of a Life
22. Queer Affective Labor in Elizabeth Bowens
Friends and Relations
23. Funny Emotions: Queer Theory, Affect, and Poetry
Melanie Micir is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Washington University in St. Louis.
