Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma Contributor(s): Westengard, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496217020 ISBN-13: 9781496217028 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Lgbt Studies - General - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Dewey: 306.766 |
LCCN: 2018057900 |
Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought--including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performance--Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic. |