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Author_Ben Nichols
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normativity
queer history
queer theory
reductionism
reproduction
sameness
uselessness
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- ISBN 9781526132833
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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-siècle 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.
Ben Nichols is a Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Manchester
