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The Queer Uncanny
New Perspectives on the Gothic
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Artikel-Nr:
9780708324585
Veröffentl:
2012
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Paulina Palmer
Gewicht:
422 g
Format:
221x143x23 mm
Serie:
Gothic Literary Studies
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dr Paulina Palmer has now retired from a senior lectureship in English at Warwick University, where she helped establish the Women's Studies MA, she also lectured for the MA in Gender and Sexuality at Birkbeck, London University. Dr Palmer's publications include Contemporary Women's Fiction: Narrative Practice and Feminist Theory; Contemporary Lesbian Writing: Dreams, Desire, Difference; and Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions. paulinapalmer.org.uk
This volume investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction published 1980-2007.
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION: QUEERING THE UNCANNY CHAPTER 2 - SECRETS AND THEIR DISCLOSURE 1 Secrets and sexuality 2 New approaches to the coming out novel 3 Double secrets: AIDS narratives 4 History/ mystery CHAPTER 3 - QUEER SPECTRALITY 1 Spectral fictions 2 Ghost stories and queer hauntings 3 The phantom-text 4 Transgender doubles CHAPTER 4 - PLACE AND SPACE 1 Theoretical approaches 2 The haunted house 3 Uncanny cities 4 Ritual and ceremony CHAPTER 5 - MONSTROUS OTHERS 1 Hybridity and border-crossing 2 Demons and robots 3 Carnivalesque fantasies