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Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies

Autor Umasankar Patra
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 mai 2026
Christopher Isherwood and Edmund White engage with autobiographical genres and negotiate their queer subjectivity in radical ways. Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging argues that this negotiation takes place in and through books: books they write, publish, help to publish, read, borrow, lend, gift, and learn from. Books and reading become sites as well as strategies in their works to construct their queer politics, forge solidarities and curate queer bonds. This volume argues that books performing these dual roles of location as well as authority play out in the intertextual nature of their works: rereading of their own works and characters, redramatization of their lives in different idioms. It results in books being critical in evaluating society's homophobia as well as significant in terms of its materiality: (re)reading and (re)writing as political moves. Thus, in their autobiographical works, books become a means of affective community (or the lack of it), queer history of the Anglo-American world (including the oppression, shame and pride), literary history of the twentieth century (with the omission of queer desire), and mode of intergenerational friendships and camaraderie. Queer Autobibliography undertakes this novel mode of analysis by coupling queer theory and autobiography studies by mobilizing current scholarship on queer relationality, queer time and narrative theory that will delimit the precincts of autobiography studies and queer theory.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032909103
ISBN-10: 1032909102
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Auto/Biography Studies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Preface
 
Chapter 1: Queer Autobibliography: Ethics of Lifewriting
 
Chapter 2: Pausing the Narrative: Queer Time in Prater Violet and My Lives
 
Chapter 3: Readers and Reading: Queer Sociality in Down There on a Visit and A Previous Life
 
Chapter 4: Aestheticization of Queer Desire: Queer Writing in Lost Years and The Loves of My Life
 
Chapter 5: “Perhaps because I lived in a World Made of Words”: Autobibliography in Isherwood and White
 
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Notă biografică

Umasankar Patra is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

Descriere

Queer Autobibliography undertakes a novel mode of analysis by coupling queer theory and autobiography studies by mobilizing current scholarship on queer relationality, queer time and narrative theory that will delimit the precincts of autobiography studies and queer theory.