Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain

Queer Troublemakers

The Poetics of Flippancy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9781350079359
• ISBN-10: 1350079359
• Artikelnr.: 54371047

Autorenporträt

Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is the author of The Feminist Fourth Wave: Affective Temporalities (2017) and three books of poetry: House of Mouse (with S. J. Folwer, 2016), Coteries (2018) and *Retroviral (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

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