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Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) by Westengard, Laura (author.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) about?

In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought—including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performance—Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic. Gothic Queer Culture examines the material effects of marginalization, exclusion, and violence and explains why discourse around the complexities of genders and sexualities repeatedly returns to the gothic. Westengard places this queer knowledge production within a larger framework of gothic queer culture, which inherently includes theoretical texts, art, literature, performance, and popular culture. By analyzing queer knowledge production alongside other forms of queer culture, Gothic Queer Culture enters into the most current conversations on the state of gender and sexuality, especially debates surroundi

Who reads Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)?

Author

Westengard, Laura (author.)

Publisher

University Of Nebraska Press,

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496217028

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Gender Studies, Social_sciences