Strange Natures

Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination

Bibliographic Data

ID8091816
AuthorsNicole Seymour (0000-0003-2581-6404, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages232
Publication date2013-05-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueStrange Natures (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/illinois/9780252037627.001.0001
OpenAlexW4235232985
Open LibraryOL28498262M
ISBN9780252037627
LanguageEN
Citations received66

This book investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, this book examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of “natural” categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. The book's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues , Todd Haynes's Safe , and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, the book delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ecocriticism · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Heterosexism · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Racism · Sociology · Xenophobia · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Human ecology · Human ecology, study and teaching · Philosophy · Philosophy of nature · Study and teaching · Gender Studies · History · Law

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