Bouncing Back: Queer Resilience in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English Literature and Culture

Susanne Jung

Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Bouncing Back: Queer Resilience in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English Literature and Culture

Susanne Jung

Volume 24 in the series Queer Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839450277

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About this book

LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analysing these strategies in terms of narration, performance, bodies, and space. Resilience turns out to be a highly interactive mode of being in the world, which can set free creative energy as well as draw inspiration and energy from artistic work. Authors and artists discussed include Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Isherwood, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jeanette Winterson, Michael Cunningham, and Ian McKellen.

Author / Editor information

Susanne Jung, born in 1975, received her doctorate in English literature from the University of Tübingen. She studied English literature, musicology and pharmacy at universities in Tübingen, Norwich, and San Francisco.

Reviews

»›Bouncing Back‹ will be of great interest to queer scholars, with many ideas that can inform further research on LGBTIQ+ literature and cultural studies.«
Noah Riseman, Anglistik, 31/1 (2020)

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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 244
Keywords: Culture; Queer; Gender; Psychology; Society; British Studies; Queer Theory; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: January 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839450277