Ugly Differences

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A.L. Steiner
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analysis of queer females in film
analysis of queer film
art film
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concept of ugly in underground culture
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creating idea of ugliness
critique of mainstream
cult film
cultural formations of queer female sexuality
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Erika Lopez
experimental film
feminism
gender studies
High Art
ideas in alternative media
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lesbianism
Liquid Sky
literary studies of ugliness
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media queer female sexuality
Narcissister
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queer comix
queer females in film
queer females in media
queer females in unpopular culture
queer females of cinema
queer film
queer studies
race and ethnicity
Roberta Gregory
Sapphire
sexual abuse
sexuality studies
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survey of underground culture
ugliness
ugly in alternative media
underground culture
underground culture and lookism
unpopular culture
verbal abuse

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252041884
  • Weight: 426g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jul 2018
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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What would it mean to turn to ugliness rather than turn away from it? Indeed, the idea of ugly often becomes synonymous with non-white, non-male, and non-heterosexual physicality and experience. That same pejorative migrates to become a label for practices within underground culture. In Ugly Differences, Yetta Howard uses underground contexts to theorize queer difference by locating ugliness at the intersection of the physical, experiential, and textual. From that nexus, Howard contends that ugliness—as a mode of pejorative identification—is fundamental to the cultural formations of queer female sexuality. Slava Tsukerman's postpunk film Liquid Sky, Sapphire's poetry, Roberta Gregory's Bitchy Butch comix, New Queer Cinema such as High Art—these and other non-canonical works contribute to an audacious critique. Howard reveals how the things we see, read as, or experience as ugly productively account for non-dominant sexual identities and creative practices. Ugly Differences offers eye-opening ways to approach queerness and its myriad underground representations.
Yetta Howard is an associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.