Queer Objects

ISBN-13: 9780367202934 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 220 str.

Guy Davidson; Monique Rooney

Opis

Pursuing the discursive or material effects of relational queerness, this book reflects on how objects can illuminate, affect, and animate queer modes of being. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction  1. Eve Sedgwick’s "Other Materials"  2. Acts Against Nature  3. Solid Objects and Modern Tonics, or, who’s Afraid of the Big Camp Woolf?  4. Library Trolls and Database Animals: Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton’s Library Book Alterations  5. Ray Johnson’s Anti-Archive: Blackface, Sadomasochism, and the Racial and Sexual Imagination of Pop Art  6. On Ray Johnson’s Sexuality, Loves, and Friendships: An Interview Between William S. Wilson and Benjamin Kahan  7. The Shameless Performativity of Camp in Patrick White’s The Twyborn Affair  8. Tom Ripley, Queer Exceptionalism, and the Anxiety of Being Close to Normal  9. Capote’s Frozen Cats: Sexuality, Hospitality, Civil Rights  10. Cooper’s Queer Objects  11. Objects of Desire: Masculinity, Homosociality and Foppishness in Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity and About a Boy  12. Queer Objects and Intermedial Timepieces: Reading s-town (2017)  13. Ephemeraphilia: A Queer History  Dossier: The Argonauts as Queer Object  14. Medea’s Perineum  15. "Feral with Vulnerability": On The Argonauts  16. Theory and the Everyday  17. On Being a Good-Enough Reader of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts  18. In the Margins with The Argonauts