Brigid Brophy’s Black Ship to Hell and a Genealogy of Queer Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920369 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Bronski (Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171-185 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpy014 |
| OpenAlex | W2891679257 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Brigid Brophy’s “Black Ship to Hell and a Genealogy of Queer Theory” argues that although Brophy’s 1962 exhaustive psychoanalytic analysis of the death instinct in Western culture is now nearly totally forgotten, it prefigures themes found in early gay and lesbian liberation thinking, as well as contemporary queer theory. Bronski argues that revisiting Black Ship to Hell (1962), which Brophy considered her first major work of cultural analysis, may illuminate the ideas and themes in the works of major feminist and queer theorists such as Kate Millett, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Juliet Mitchell, David Fernback, Guy Hocquenghem, José Estaban Muñoz, and Jack Halberstam
Art · Art history · Instinct · Lesbian · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · European history and politics · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Psychology · Gender Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |