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Queer Environmentality - Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature (Paperback)
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Queer Environmentality - Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature (Paperback)
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Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and
environmental studies, Robert Azzarello's book traces a
queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic
literature. Azzarello challenges the notion that reading
environmental literature is unsatisfying in terms of aesthetics and
proposes an understanding of literary environmentalism that is rich
in poetic complexity. With the term "queer environmentality,"
Azzarello points towards a queer sensibility in the history of
environmental literature to balance the dominant narrative that
reading environmental literature is tantamount to witnessing a
spectacular dramatization of heterosexual teleology. Azzarello's
study treats four key figures in the American literary tradition:
Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Djuna
Barnes. Each of these writers problematizes conventional notions of
the strange matrix between the human, the natural, and the sexual.
They brilliantly demonstrate the ways in which the queer project
and the environmental project are always connected or, put another
way, show that questions and politics of human sexuality are always
entwined with those associated with the other-than-human world.
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