Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer
theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in
philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer
theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to
'sameness' only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this
book takes a number of these ideas as its focus - uselessness,
reproduction, normativity and reductionism - and reveals their
unexpected formal and thematic importance to a range of queer
literary genres from across the long twentieth century:
fin-de-siecle aestheticism, feminist speculative fiction, lesbian
middlebrow writing, and the 'stud file' or record of serial sex.
Demonstrating how queer cultural objects often stand at odds with
the frameworks that have been meant to help interpret and
comprehend them, Same old interrogates the genealogy of the
aversion to sameness that has kept those frameworks in place. -- .
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