Queer Troublemakers: The Poetics of Flippancy

By Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain

Book Overview

Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350215422
• ISBN13: 9781350215429
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"