Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange

by Helen Palmer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474434150
• ISBN13: 9781474434157
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"