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04248aam a2200601 i 4500 001 516340A83A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150804010056 008 140508s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014005144 020 $a 019934020X (paper) 020 $a 9780199340200 (paper) 020 $a 0199340196 (hardback) 020 $a 9780199340194 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)879538672 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d UKMGB $d IUL $d YUS $d CDX $d ZCU $d COO $d BTCTA $d BDX $d NLGGC $d PUL $d CHVBK $d STF $d KMS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS169.H65 $b R64 2015 082 00 $a 809/.93352664 $2 23 084 $a SOC012000 $a SOC012000 $2 bisacsh 084 $a 18.05 $2 bcl 084 $a 18.06 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Rohy, Valerie, $e author. 245 10 $a Lost causes : $b narrative, etiology, and queer theory / $c Valerie Rohy. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a viii, 237 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-230) and index. 505 0 $a Cause and Effect -- On Homosexual Reproduction -- Strange Influence : The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Return from the Future : James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography -- Desire and the Scene of Reading : The Well of Loneliness -- The Future in Ruins : Borrowed Time -- Contingency for Beginners : The Night Watch -- Multiply and Divide. 520 $a Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology -- that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, "recruitment," or biology. Reading etiology as a narrative form, political strategy, and hermeneutic method in American and British literature and popular culture, it argues that today's gay arguments for biological determinism accept their opponents' paranoia about what Rohy calls "homosexual reproduction"-that is, nonsexual forms of queer increase-preventing more complex ways of considering sexuality and causality. This study combines literary texts and psychoanalytic theory--two salient sources of etiological narratives in themselves -- to reconsider phobic tropes of homosexual reproduction: contagion in Borrowed Time, bad influence in The Picture of Dorian Gray, trauma in The Night Watch, choice of identity in James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, and dangerous knowledge in The Well of Loneliness. These readings draw on Lacan's notion of retroactive causality to convert the question of what causes homosexuality into a question of what homosexuality causes as the constitutive outside of a heteronormative symbolic order. Ultimately, this study shows, queer communities and queer theory must embrace formerly shaming terms -- why should the increase of homosexuality be unthinkable? -- while retaining the critical sense of queerness as a non-identity, a permanent negativity". 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Homosexuality in literature. 650 0 $a Queer theory. 650 0 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Homosexuality and literature. 650 0 $a Gender identity in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Gender identity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00939607 650 7 $a Homosexuality and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959818 650 7 $a Homosexuality in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959825 650 7 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01032932 650 7 $a Queer theory. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01739572 650 7 $a Literatur. $0 (DE-588)4035964-5 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Englisch. $0 (DE-588)4014777-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a HomosexualitaÌt. $0 (DE-588)4122204-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Queer-Theorie. $0 (DE-588)7628620-4 $2 gnd 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020021610.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=516340A83A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search