Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma

by Laura Westengard

Book Overview

In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought--including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performance--Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496217020
• ISBN13: 9781496217028
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"