Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240).
Contents:
Narrative Strategies -- The Art of Queer Emptiness -- Performative Strategies -- Spatial Strategies -- Bodily Strategies.
Summary:
LGBTQ people have strategies of relisience 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, alalysing these strategies in therms 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. From back cover.
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