Queer Troublemakers
| Author | : Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2019-08-08 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781350079366 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1350079367 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (367 Downloads) |
Download or read book Queer Troublemakers written by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.