Queering the World or Worlding the Queer? New Readings of Anna Kavan’s Who Are You
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12247448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Houlden (0000-0003-1224-8890, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 295-311 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women a Cultural Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4042 • E-ISSN: 1470-1367 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09574042.2017.1388580 |
| OpenAlex | W2768149365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This essay explores world-literary and queer approaches to Anna Kavan’s little discussed 1963 novel Who Are You?. It argues that world-literary scholarship demonstrates the centrality of white colonial masculinity to capitalist modernity, while a queer reading highlights the anxious performativity at the heart of such power. The most distinctive feature of Kavan’s text is its unusual format, whereby the story is told once, in detail, before immediately being retold, in more concise fashion and with some adjustments. What both fields add to the analysis of this formal deviation is a shared concern with the failings of normative order—whether that be the bourgeois, heteropatriarchal family or the capitalist system itself—and, in turn, the relationship of such failure to narrative disjuncture
Aesthetics · Art · Bourgeoisie · Epistemology · Literature · Masculinity · Modernity · Narrative · Normative · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Queer · Reading (process · Scholarship · Sociology · White (mutation · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |