Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange

By: Palmer, Helen

Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory.
She explores how we might radically restructure this gesture of 'making-strange' to create a dialogue with the affirmations of 'deviant', 'errant', 'alternative' and 'multiple' modes of being which have become synonymous with queer theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474434142
• ISBN13: 9781474434140
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.0"