On Sibling Love, Queer Attachment and American Writing

ISBN-13: 9781138264915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

Denis Flannery

Opis

Considering the crucial though neglected relationship between sibling love and queer desire from Herman Melville to the cinema of the 1990s and from Henry James to Jamaica Kincaid, Denis Flannery argues for the literal and figurative centrality of fraternal and sororal bonds to queer strands of American literature and culture. His book is an important contribution to queer theory; to American studies; and to the study of culture, writing and affect.

Recenzje

'To bring siblings to gay attachments and queer theory to sibling relationships is inspirational. Each informs and shapes the other in Flannery's brilliant and innovative re-reading of American writing and culture'. Juliet Mitchell, University of Cambridge, UK

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Part 1: Introduction; The monkey-rope; The appalling Mrs Luna: sibling love, queer attachment and Henry James's The Bostonians. Part 2: Cinematic siblings: Paris is Burning; Wolf-trapping: Cormac McCarthy, sibling love and the lupine queer; Sibling love, queer attachment, a fear of falling: David Fincher's The Game; Jamaica Kincaid and Chuck Palahniuk: AIDS, resurrection and recognition; Works cited; Index.

O autorze

Dr Denis Flannery is Senior Lecturer in American and English Literature in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK