Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.
In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities.
With essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffat.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction | 1
Part I: Queer Natures
Charles Darwin, Queer Theorist | 11
The Comedy of Nature: Darwinian Feminism
in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts | 50
Art for Science’s Sake: Wilde in Whitman’s Wilderness | 90
Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter,
Darwin, and Forster | 97
“Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag
of Langston Hughes | 106
Epilogue: The Myth of Nature | 134
Part II: Queer Mythologies
Fast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed
in Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises | 159
Making Modernism New: Queer Mythology
in The Young and Evil | 194
American Failurism: Hart Crane’s The Bridge and Kenneth
Burke’s Paradox of Purity | 229
The Cruelty of Breeding: Queer Time in The Waste Land | 258
Essays
The Ancients and the Queer Moderns
Scott Herring | 271
Contrary / Sexual / Feeling
Heather Love | 288
Late Sam See
Wendy Moffat | 300
Acknowledgments | 309
List of Contributors | 311
Index | 313
Circa l’autore
Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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