Chances Are: Contingency, Queer Theory, and American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138290587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 166 str.

Val Rohy

Opis

This innovative work makes use of psychoanalytic, queer, and narrative theories to read nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and demonstrate how the concept of contingency—whether chance, accident, luck, or mutation—enriches our understanding of how queer sexualities are articulated.

O autorze

Valerie Rohy is a Professor of English and the University of Vermont. She is the author of　Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (Cornell, 2000), Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality (SUNY, 2009), and Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory (Oxford, 2015).