Denis Flannery

On Sibling Love, Queer Attachment and American Writing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considering the crucial though neglected relationship between sibling love and queer desire from Herman Melville to the cinema of the 1990s and from Henry James to Jamaica Kincaid, Denis Flannery argues for the literal and figurative centrality of fraternal and sororal bonds to queer strands of American literature and culture. His book is an important contribution to queer theory; to American studies; and to the study of culture, writing and affect.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2017
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138264915
• ISBN-10: 1138264911
• Artikelnr.: 48918034

Autorenporträt

Dr Denis Flannery is Senior Lecturer in American and English Literature in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Part 1: Introduction
The monkey-rope
The appalling Mrs Luna: sibling love, queer attachment and Henry James's The Bostonians. Part 2: Cinematic siblings: Paris is Burning
Wolf-trapping: Cormac McCarthy, sibling love and the lupine queer
Sibling love, queer attachment, a fear of falling: David Fincher's The Game
Jamaica Kincaid and Chuck Palahniuk: AIDS, resurrection and recognition
Works cited
Index.