Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry: Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture

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Jongwoo Jeremy Kim (University of Louisville, USA) Christopher Reed

Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry

Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim (University of Louisville, USA), Christopher Reed

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Routledge
23 May 2019

Theory of art; Literary theory; Gender studies, gender groups

"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."

Edited by: Jongwoo Jeremy Kim (University of Louisville USA), Christopher Reed
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367199159
ISBN 10: 0367199157
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 23 May 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is Associate Professor of Art History at the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville, USA. Painted Men in Britain, 1868–1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities (2012) is his first book. Christopher Reed is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Visual Culture at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His books include Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities (2016), Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas (2011), the co-authored If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past (2012), Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity (2004), and the anthology Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (1996).