Queer Environmentality
Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19919352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Azzarello (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Queer Environmentality (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315603179 |
| OpenAlex | W4255885941 |
| ISBN | 9781315603179 |
| Open Library | OL39261788M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, Robert Azzarello's book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Azzarello challenges the notion that reading environmental literature is unsatisfying in terms of aesthetics and proposes an understanding of literary environmentalism that is rich in poetic complexity. With the term "queer environmentality," Azzarello points towards a queer sensibility in the history of environmental literature to balance the dominant narrative that reading environmental literature is tantamount to witnessing a spectacular dramatization of heterosexual teleology. Azzarello's study treats four key figures in the American literary tradition: Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Djuna Barnes. Each of these writers problematizes conventional notions of the strange matrix between the human, the natural, and the sexual. They brilliantly demonstrate the ways in which the queer project and the environmental project are always connected or, put another way, show that questions and politics of human sexuality are always entwined with those associated with the other-than-human world
Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · American Environmental and Regional History · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Psychology · 1892-1982 · 19th century · 20th century · American literature · Barnes, djuna · Ecology in literature · Environmentalism in literature · Environnementalisme dans la littérature · henry david Thoreau (1817-1862) · herman Melville (1819-1891) · History and criticism · Homosexualité dans la littérature · Homosexuality and literature · Homosexuality in literature · Sex in literature · willa Cather (1873-1947)
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2018 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |