Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground - Tapa blanda

Howard, Yetta

 
9780252083549: Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground
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ISBN 10: 0252083547 ISBN 13: 9780252083549
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2018

Sinopsis

What would it mean to turn to ugliness rather than turn away from it? Indeed, the idea of ugly often becomes synonymous with non-white, non-male, and non-heterosexual physicality and experience. That same pejorative migrates to become a label for practices within underground culture. In Ugly Differences, Yetta Howard uses underground contexts to theorize queer difference by locating ugliness at the intersection of the physical, experiential, and textual. From that nexus, Howard contends that ugliness―as a mode of pejorative identification―is fundamental to the cultural formations of queer female sexuality. Slava Tsukerman's postpunk film Liquid Sky, Sapphire's poetry, Roberta Gregory's Bitchy Butch comix, New Queer Cinema such as High Art―these and other non-canonical works contribute to an audacious critique. Howard reveals how the things we see, read as, or experience as ugly productively account for non-dominant sexual identities and creative practices. Ugly Differences offers eye-opening ways to approach queerness and its myriad underground representations.

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Yetta Howard is an associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252083547
ISBN 13 
9780252083549
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Número de páginas
210
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