Overview

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating notions of silence, misunderstanding, pleasure, and even affects of phobia in artworks and texts, the essays in this volume propose new and surprising ways of understanding the difficulty—even failure—of the epistemology of the closet. By treating ""queer"" not as an identity but as an activity, this book represents a divergence from previous approaches associated with Lesbian and Gay Studies. The authors in this anthology refute the interpretive ease of binaries such as ""out"" versus ""closeted"" and ""gay"" versus ""straight,"" and recognize a more opaque relationship of identity to pleasure. The essays range in focus from photography, painting, and film to poetry, Biblical texts, lesbian humor, and even botany. Evaluating the most recent critical theories and introducing them in close examinations of objects and texts, this book queers the study of verse and visual culture in new and exciting ways.

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Author:   Jongwoo Jeremy Kim (University of Louisville, USA) ,  Christopher Reed (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780367199159

ISBN 10:   0367199157
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   23 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Difficult Queers, Queer Difficulties 1. Bohemians of the Vegetable World Alison Syme 2. The Consequences of Dating Don Leon Charles Upchurch 3. The Song of Songs for Difficult Queers: Simeon Solomon, Neil Bartlett, and A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep Duc Dau 4. Ingres’s Line Kevin Kopelson 5. ""I Am a Photographer, Not a Lesbian"": Berenice Abbott’s Visibility Tirza True Latimer 6. Naked Politics: The Art of Eros 1955-1975 Jonathan Katz 7. The Blatant Image, Lesbian Identity, and Visual Pleasure Margo Hobbs 8. For/Against Homoeroticism: Posing Difficulty for the Habitual Decoders of Desire Nicholas de Villiers 9. Ladies Almanack showing their Satire and Irony; Sorrow and Sentimentality; Ridiculousness in Relation to Sexual Identity; as well as reflections on Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home—Or, Notes not on Camp Christopher Reed 10. Now and (N)ever: Robert Gober’s Beeswax Time Machines Jongwoo Jeremy Kim 11. Hip Openers: On the Visuals of Gendering Athleticism Erica Rand 12. The Perils and Pleasures of Drinking in Will Self and Herman Melville Carina Pasquesi"

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Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is Associate Professor of Art History at the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville, USA. Painted Men in Britain, 1868–1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities (2012) is his first book. Christopher Reed is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Visual Culture at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His books include Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities (2016), Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas (2011), the co-authored If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past (2012), Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity (2004), and the anthology Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (1996).

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