Queer Troublemakers : The Poetics of Flippancy (Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics)

Bussey-Chamberlain, Prudence

Bloomsbury Academic（2019/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350079359
• DDC分類 811.509353

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1 The Poetics of Flippancy
2 He Cannot Understand Women. I Can': Gertrude Stein and the Camp Butch
3 'There's Nothing Metaphysical About It': Frank O'Hara's Flippant Manifesto and the Poetry of Tight Trousers
4 'Who Are These Idiots Writing These Poems?': Eileen Myles' Pornographic Tone and Mutable Categories
5 'Was Harry a Woman? Was I a Straight Lady?': Tensions of Heternormativity, Assimilation and the Second Person
Conclusion

References
Index