Queer Autobibliography
Christopher Isherwood and Edmund White engage with autobiographical genres and negotiate their queer subjectivity in radical ways. Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging argues that this negotiation takes place in and through books: books they write, publish, help to publish,...
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| description | Christopher Isherwood and Edmund White engage with autobiographical genres and negotiate their queer subjectivity in radical ways. Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging argues that this negotiation takes place in and through books: books they write, publish, help to publish, read, borrow, lend, gift, and learn from. Books and reading become sites as well as strategies in their works to construct their queer politics, forge solidarities, and curate queer bonds. This volume suggests that books performing these dual roles of location and authority play out in the intertextual nature of their works: a rereading of their own works and characters and a redramatization of their lives in different idioms. It results in books being critical in evaluating society’s homophobia as well as significant in terms of its materiality: (re)reading and (re)writing as political moves. Thus, in their autobiographical works, books construct an affective community (underlining intergenerational friendships and relational networks), queer history of the Anglo-American world (detailing the oppression, shame, and pride), and literary history of the twentieth century (highlighting the omission of queer desire). Queer Autobibliography undertakes this novel mode of analysis by coupling queer theory and autobiography studies by mobilizing current scholarship on queer relationality, queer time, and theories of reading. Broadly, it seeks to throw light on Isherwood and White’s oeuvres, which, despite its rich innovations, have not received much scholarly attention from autobiography studies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1756812026-06-21T05:21:45Z Queer Autobibliography Patra, Umasankar Autobiographical criticism Queer literary studies Intertextual analysis Affective communities Narrative theory LGBTQ+ history scholarship Queer subjectivity in twentieth century literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general Christopher Isherwood and Edmund White engage with autobiographical genres and negotiate their queer subjectivity in radical ways. Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging argues that this negotiation takes place in and through books: books they write, publish, help to publish, read, borrow, lend, gift, and learn from. Books and reading become sites as well as strategies in their works to construct their queer politics, forge solidarities, and curate queer bonds. This volume suggests that books performing these dual roles of location and authority play out in the intertextual nature of their works: a rereading of their own works and characters and a redramatization of their lives in different idioms. It results in books being critical in evaluating society’s homophobia as well as significant in terms of its materiality: (re)reading and (re)writing as political moves. Thus, in their autobiographical works, books construct an affective community (underlining intergenerational friendships and relational networks), queer history of the Anglo-American world (detailing the oppression, shame, and pride), and literary history of the twentieth century (highlighting the omission of queer desire). Queer Autobibliography undertakes this novel mode of analysis by coupling queer theory and autobiography studies by mobilizing current scholarship on queer relationality, queer time, and theories of reading. Broadly, it seeks to throw light on Isherwood and White’s oeuvres, which, despite its rich innovations, have not received much scholarly attention from autobiography studies. 2026-04-20T08:12:04Z 2026-04-20T08:12:04Z 2026-04-16T13:15:48Z 2026 book ONIX_20260415T184307_9781040586457_12 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112473 9781040586457 9781003560470 9781040677926 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175681 eng Routledge Auto/Biography Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112473/1/9781040586457.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112473/1/9781040586457.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112473/1/9781040586457.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112473/1/9781040586457.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003560470 10.4324/9781003560470 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040586457 9781003560470 9781040677926 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge Gender & Sexuality Studies 2026 Routledge 174 Oxford open access |
| spellingShingle | Autobiographical criticism Queer literary studies Intertextual analysis Affective communities Narrative theory LGBTQ+ history scholarship Queer subjectivity in twentieth century literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general Patra, Umasankar Queer Autobibliography |
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| topic | Autobiographical criticism Queer literary studies Intertextual analysis Affective communities Narrative theory LGBTQ+ history scholarship Queer subjectivity in twentieth century literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general |
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