Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies
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9780823286980, 9780823288830

Author(s):  
Heather Love

See's thinking is out ahead of the field, or in opposition to it: in his questioning of the epistemological ground and the political effects of anti-essentialism; in his rethinking of the place of science and of Enlightenment values more broadly; and in his testing of anti-normativity as a framework for politics, See demurs from fundamental principles of queer studies.



Author(s):  
Sam See ◽  
Scott Herring ◽  
Heather Love ◽  
Wendy Moffat
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The Young and Evil’s queerness undergirds its most consummately modernist ambitions: to renovate myth for modern purposes and to create folklore for a burgeoning ethnic community.



Author(s):  
Sam See ◽  
Scott Herring ◽  
Heather Love ◽  
Wendy Moffat

The concept of queer natures developed throughout the twentieth century developed into a communal myth. Nature served as a source of mythological belief in the materiality of sexual and aesthetic feeling for queers throughout the twentieth century and became a source of political organization.



Author(s):  
Wendy Moffat

A consideration of See’s two projects: one challenging the status of nature within queer studies, the other proposing a new theory of the orientation toward myth of queer politics. Memories of See as a reader and teacher.



Author(s):  
Scott Herring

See performs a revivification of queer modernist studies that connects up with ancient times.



Author(s):  
Sam See ◽  
Scott Herring ◽  
Heather Love ◽  
Wendy Moffat

Langston Hughes’s “Spectacles in Color” envisions Harlem culture as a drag performance. The Weary Blues records a lyric history of modernist Harlem in poems that perform in drag, an aesthetic of visual crossing. This aesthetic ironically coincides with and also countermands the identitarian stereotypes of African Americans and queers that were propagated by early-twentieth-century sexological science and degeneration theory.



Author(s):  
Sam See ◽  
Scott Herring ◽  
Heather Love ◽  
Wendy Moffat
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Reproductive sexuality is the inevitable precondition for what is actually wasted in The Waste Land. The poem exists in a dialectical queer time that simultaneously propels, reverses, and freezes the motion of heterotemporality.



Author(s):  
Sam See ◽  
Scott Herring ◽  
Heather Love ◽  
Wendy Moffat

Transfer and Rises mimetically reproduce the effects of speed technology at the levels of narrative structure and texture to create literary space in a culture where technology depleted physical space, both literally and perceptually. These novels embrace technological innovation but not so uncritically as to use its speed to annihilate time and space.



Author(s):  
Sam See ◽  
Scott Herring ◽  
Heather Love ◽  
Wendy Moffat

Darwin conceptualizes nature as a non-normative, infinitely heterogeneous composite of mutating laws and principles. Contextualizing queer literature within a Darwinian framework presents opportunities to reassess contemporary literary histories of modernism that oppose modernist aesthetics, positivist science, and theoretical orthodoxies about the conceptual dangers of nature.



Author(s):  
Sam See ◽  
Scott Herring ◽  
Heather Love ◽  
Wendy Moffat
Keyword(s):  

Hart Crane acknowledged the problem of creating a representative tale of the American tribe. Unlike other writers, however, Crane harnessed the long poem’s generic incapacity to universalize experience as his poem’s central structural and thematic principle. This failure of linguistic union is analogous to the failure of sexual union, but these broken erotic unions open space for poetic expressions of an unidealized myth of homosexual union.



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