Queer Troublemakers
Subtitle: The Poetics of Flippancy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781350079359
Subjects: American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century; Avant-garde (aesthetics); Homosexuality and literature; American poetry, history and criticism
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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.