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Body Forms: Queerness & the Essay
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This collection of interviews on queerness and the essay troubles categorizations of gender, sexuality, and genre in order to broaden understandings of form.
Excerpt:
Maybe ‘queer’ has lost it’s subversive edge for me? Maybe that is a direct result of capacious uses of the term ‘queer’ in literary circles, where queer signals aesthetics affinities rather than an embodied experience, resistance to a heteronormative way of life, or expression of affinity with certain subcultures and models of relationality. Perversion is probably more important to me than’“orientation.'
—Jackie Wang
This collection of interviews on queerness and the essay troubles categorizations of gender, sexuality, and genre in order to broaden understandings of form.
Excerpt:
Maybe ‘queer’ has lost it’s subversive edge for me? Maybe that is a direct result of capacious uses of the term ‘queer’ in literary circles, where queer signals aesthetics affinities rather than an embodied experience, resistance to a heteronormative way of life, or expression of affinity with certain subcultures and models of relationality. Perversion is probably more important to me than’“orientation.'
—Jackie Wang
- GenresQueer
56 pages, ebook
First published August 15, 2015
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T. Fleischmann
4 books86 followersT Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty and the curator of Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay. A nonfiction editor at DIAGRAM and contributing editor at Essay Daily, they have published critical and creative work in journals such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, and others, as well as in the anthologies Bending Genre, How We Speak to One Another, Little Boxes, and Feminisms in Motion.
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