Queer Troublemakers

The Poetics of Flippancy

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Queer Troublemakers

The Poetics of Flippancy

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Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1 The Poetics of Flippancy
2 He Cannot Understand Women. I Can': Gertrude Stein and the Camp Butch
3 'There's Nothing Metaphysical About It': Frank O'Hara's Flippant Manifesto and the Poetry of Tight Trousers
4 'Who Are These Idiots Writing These Poems?': Eileen Myles' Pornographic Tone and Mutable Categories
5 'Was Harry a Woman? Was I a Straight Lady?': Tensions of Heternormativity, Assimilation and the Second Person
Conclusion

References
Index

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 28 Jan 2021
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 208
ISBN 9781350215429
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 3 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Series Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain

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