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Modernism’s Queer Parents
This volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood are experienced, processed, and enacted by queer characters in selected works by Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust—authors now widely regarded as queer, despite not having claimed such an identity in their own time. The selected texts include Mann’s Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow and Death in Venice, Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Orlando, and key sections from Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. By engaging these texts in a pairwise dialogue, this book argues that Mann, Woolf, and Proust employ a shared repertoire of motifs and narrative strategies to depict ...
Queer Trauma Across Borders
This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of queer subjectivity—an aesthetic, affective, and epistemological impasse. Through provocative readings of literature, film, music, and performance, the contributors expose how trauma disorients narrative, troubles identity, and resists the consolations of resolution. Urgent and uncompromising, this book offers a bold rethinking of trauma’s role in queer theory, literary studies, and cultural critique.
Queer Kinship and Comparative Literature
This edited collection provides a critical forum for scholars to examine the evolution of queer kinship—encompassing the wide range of relationships, both biological and nonbiological, that queer individuals choose (or are compelled) to establish—through its representation in literature over time and across cultural contexts. In particular, the ten essays in this collection utilize close readings, philosophy, and theory to address the following question: How can we conceptualize the nature of queer kinship based on its textual representations? To this end, the essays engage with a diverse array of texts, from Buddhist writing to contemporary song lyrics, French literature from the 17th and 18th centuries to contemporary drama and novels from Sweden, Israel, and the Anglosphere. This broad temporal and geographic scope yields new critical insights into the varied ontologies of queer kinship and highlights the inherent paradoxes and fundamental messiness in queer kinship formations across different times, spaces, and contexts. In doing so, the collection makes a significant and timely contribution to the fields of kinship studies, queer studies, and comparative literature.
Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture
Drumlin N.M. Crape and Brooke Cameron’s Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture is an edited collection of essays addressing a wide range of literary depictions of vampirism and disability, from early and formative Victorian vampire stories like Eric Stenbock’s ‘The True Story of a Vampire’ (1894) and Dion Boucicault’s The Vampire (1852) to contemporary depictions across media forms, including the novels that comprise Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles (1976–2018), television shows like The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017) and Midnight Mass (2021), and recent video games like V Rising (2022). In addition to this breadth of vampires and vampire stories included, this collection emphasizes a broad and multifaceted understanding of disability that is critical of the historical and ongoing ways that ableism and rigid ideas about normalcy have linked monsters like vampires to disabled people. By critically examining the way disability is presented in vampire stories, the work of this collection’s contributors speaks to evolving ideas of who counts as human—and of what, exactly, the figure of the vampire has to teach us about our own humanity.
Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel
Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel examines Dreiser’s three published travel narratives, A Traveler at Forty (1913), A Hoosier Holiday (1916), and Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928), along with his 1916–26 travel diaries for trips to Georgia, New Jersey, California, and Florida, and his impressions of his early days as a journalist in New York, captured in Newspaper Days (1922, 1931) and early essays collected in The Color of a Great City (1923). This book is the first sustained analysis of travel narratives from one of the most important US writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dreiser’s fiction is often read in relation to the themes of literary naturalis...
Food Places in Children's Literature
Food Places in Children’s Literature analyses how food, place and social interactions are intertwined in children’s and young adult novels. This book sets out to analyse a range of children’s books from across the 20th and 21st centuries, each of which relate to specific kinds of places, from the kitchen to the restaurant to the ad hoc picnic place, by using selected spatial theories, but also considering, for example, theories of communication. Examining how food is an object of material culture and shapes identities in a way similar to places, the book explores what happens when food and place meet and become intertwined within children’s narratives. This book is for scholars, academics, and postgraduate students in the arts and humanities with a special focus on children’s literature and media (literature, film and media studies) as well as academics and students with a special interest in food studies.
Queer Trauma Across Borders
This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of queer subjectivity—an aesthetic, affective, and epistemological impasse. Through provocative readings of literature, film, music, and performance, the contributors expose how trauma disorients narrative, troubles identity, and resists the consolations of resolution. Urgent and uncompromising, this book offers a bold rethinking of trauma’s role in queer theory, literary studies, and cultural critique.
Herkünfte erzählen
Plurale Herkunftserzählungen prägen die gegenwärtige Literatur. Der Plural konterkariert und unterläuft dabei monolithische Konzepte personaler Identität und zeigt die Subjekte als multidimensional verwoben, u.a. in ihren sozialen, familiären oder religiösen Kontexten. In intersektionalen Perspektiven fokussieren Autor*innen wie Saša Stanišić, Christian Baron, Sharon Dodua Otoo oder Deniz Ohde auf Formen einander überlagernder Gewalt und Exklusion. Sie behandeln in ihren Texten Migrationserfahrungen, geschlechtliche, sexuelle oder religiöse Identitätszuschreibungen, (versuchte) Klassenaufstiege wie auch Formen utopischen Bewusstseins. Im Zentrum stehen Poetiken, die diese widers...
Modernism's Queer Parents
This volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood are experienced, processed, and enacted by queer characters in selected works by Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust--authors now widely regarded as queer, despite not having claimed such an identity in their own time. The selected texts include Mann's Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow and Death in Venice, Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Orlando, and key sections from Proust's In Search of Lost Time. By engaging these texts in a pairwise dialogue, this book argues that Mann, Woolf, and Proust employ a shared repertoire of motifs and narrative strategies to depict queer c...
