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Description
The act and experience of waiting – and refusing to wait – is a central feature in queer people's lives: from waiting to come out, to waiting for political and social recognition, to refusing to wait while hard-won legal rights are taken away today.
In this open access book, von Seth traces and explores entanglements of queerness and waiting in fictional and autobiographical queer-themed narratives, to propose the new theoretical concept of “queer waiting”.
Drawing on a diverse selection of narratives, genres, and cultural contexts, including early queer texts about gay men, texts about trans experiences and waiting for death during the AIDS epidemic, films such as Brokeback Mountain and the videogame The Last of Us Part II, Oscar von Seth argues that although waiting is a universal human activity and an unavoidable aspect of life, it can be understood as a distinct and specifically queer cultural phenomenon.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Queer Temporality of Waiting
Chapter 2. Waiting in Times of HIV and AIDS
Chapter 3. Killing Time: Bad Gays Waiting
Chapter 4. Queer Waiting and Happy Endings
Epilogue. Refusing to Wait
Notes
Works Cited
Acknowledgements
Index
Product details
| Published | Feb 18 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350582941 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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