Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class

Autor(en)

Susanne Hochreiter, Tomasz Basiuk, Tijana Ristic-Kern, Maria Olive Alexopoulos

Abstrakt

Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class focuses on the crossover of queer and class, examining a range of texts across languages and genres and spanning nearly a century.

This collection of chapters considers the intersection of queer and class in relation to literary aesthetics, a locus in which the interaction between sexuality and class is rendered with lucidity. Each chapter puts forward class and its manifestations as central to queer analysis of literary and cultural texts in historical and contemporary contexts. The readings adopt Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectional paradigm by pointing to its activist as well as literary precedents and elaborations.

These chapters emerged from a long-standing collaboration among three Central European universities whose faculty and graduate students established a joint queer literature and theory research seminar. They are supplemented by a roundtable discussion in which the contributing authors and their colleagues discuss how the concepts of queer and class in theory and (academic) practice have informed their current and previous work.

Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class is intended for scholars in gender and queer studies.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Germanistik

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Warsaw, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of British Columbia (UBC)

Anzahl der Seiten

125

Publikationsdatum

2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602005 Amerikanistik, 602014 Germanistik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Literature and Literary Theory

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 5 – Geschlechtergleichheit

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/d8ee7f02-0870-40ee-a948-e0f06770c00d