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Chances Are - Contingency, Queer Theory, and American Literature (Paperback)
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Chances Are - Contingency, Queer Theory, and American Literature (Paperback)
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This innovative work makes use of psychoanalytic, queer, and
narrative theories to read nineteenth and twentieth-century
American literature and demonstrate how the concept of
contingency-whether chance, accident, luck, or mutation-enriches
our understanding of how queer sexualities are articulated. Perhaps
love always carries an element of contingency (our attraction to a
particular person can be arbitrary and inexplicable), and a sense
of necessity (we find that we cannot imagine life without them).
But contingency and chance mean something different for queer
subjects. In a heteronormative culture, heterosexuality claims to
be necessary (it must be), whereas homosexuality not only could be
otherwise, but perhaps it should be otherwise, and probably it
should not be at all. This book outlines why and how issues of
chance and contingency should matter to queer theory and queer
literary studies. Combining psychoanalytic, queer, and narrative
theories, Chances Are considers nineteenth- and twentieth-century
American literary texts that formally or thematically involve
contingencies of their own, including narrative coincidences and
accidents, the role of luck in notions of race and class, and
efforts to imagine queer hermeneutic methods that make space for
contingency. Literary texts include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Mystery
of Marie Roget" (1842), Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick novels
(1868-69), Frank Norris's The Pit (1903) and Edith Wharton's The
House of Mirth (1905), Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy (1892) and
Nella Larsen's Passing (1929), H.D.'s Tribute to Freud (1956), and
Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother (2012). This dynamic and
original text would be suitable for students and researchers in
literary studies, critical theory and women's and gender studies.
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