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Gothic queer culture : marginalized communities and the ghosts of insidious trauma /

In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought - including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Westengard, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Series:Expanding frontiers.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why gothic? : queer cultures and insidious trauma
  • Haunted epistemologies : gothic queer theory
  • Live burial : lesbian pulp and the "containment crypt"
  • Monstrosity : melancholia, cannibalism, and HIV/AIDS
  • Sadomasochism : strategic discomfort in trans* and queer of color performance art
  • Conclusion: keep queer gothic! the challenges of neoliberalism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.