Queer Troublemakers
The Poetics of Flippancy
Queer Troublemakers
The Poetics of Flippancy
Description
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
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
Product details
| Published | 08 Aug 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781350079373 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 3 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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