Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies

Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies

  • Autor: See, Sam; Looby, Christopher; North, Michael; Herring, Scott; Love, Heather; Moffat, Wendy
  • Editor: Fordham University Press
  • ISBN: 9780823286980
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823287017
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823287000
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació: 2020
  • Any de publicació digital: 2020
  • Mes: Gener
  • Idioma: Anglés

Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.

In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities.

With essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffat.

  • Cover
  • QUEER NATURES, QUEER MYTHOLOGIES
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Part I QUEER NATURES
    • Charles Darwin, Queer Theorist
    • The Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminism in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
    • Art for Science’s Sake: Wilde in Whitman’s Wilderness
    • Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter, Darwin, and Forster
    • “Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag of Langston Hughes
    • Epilogue: The Myth of Nature
  • Part II QUEER MYTHOLOGIES
    • Fast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed in Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises
    • Making Modernism New: Queer Mythology in The Young and Evil
    • American Failurism: Hart Crane’s The Bridge and Kenneth Burke’s Paradox of Purity
    • The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in The Waste Land
  • ESSAYS
    • The Ancients and the Queer Moderns
    • Contrary / Sexual / Feeling
    • Late Sam See
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • Index