Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating notions of silence, misunderstanding, pleasure, and even affects of phobia in artworks and texts, the essays in this volume propose new and surprising ways of understanding the difficulty—even failure—of the epistemology of the closet. By treating "queer" not as an identity but as an activity, this book represents a divergence from previous approaches associated with Lesbian and Gay Studies. The authors in this anthology refute the interpretive ease of binaries such as "out" versus "closeted" and "gay" versus "straight, " and recognize a more opaque relationship of identity to pleasure. The essays range in focus from photography, painting, and film to poetry, Biblical texts, lesbian humor, and even botany. Evaluating the most recent critical theories and introducing them in close examinations of objects and texts, this book queers the study of verse and visual culture in new and exciting ways.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2017

ISBN

9781315469799

Edition

Topic

Art

Subtopic

Art General

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction: queer difficulty, difficult queers
1 Bohemians of the vegetable world
2 The consequences of dating Don Leon
3 The Song of Songs for difficult queers: Simeon Solomon, Neil Bartlett, and A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep
4 Ingres’s line
5 “I am a photographer, not a lesbian”: Berenice Abbott’s visibility
6 Naked politics: the art of Eros 1955–1975
7 The Blatant Image, lesbian identity, and visual pleasure
8 For/against homoeroticism: posing difficulty for the habitual decoders of desire
9 Ladies Almanack showing their Satire and Irony; Sorrow and Sentimentality; Ridiculousness in relation to Sexual Identity; as well as reflections on Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home— or, Notes not on “Camp”
10 Now and (n)ever: Robert Gober’s beeswax time machines
11 Hip openers: on the visuals of gendering athleticism
12 The perils and pleasures of drinking in Will Self and Herman Melville
Index