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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Poetry, Gender, and Sexuality

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Poetry, Gender, and Sexuality

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Offering a comprehensive survey of poetry and poetics at the intersection of gender and sexuality, this handbook places queer and feminist poetry and poetics in dialogue with a range of critical frameworks emerging from critical disability and critical race studies, diaspora studies, decolonial studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and translation studies.

Seeking a range of perspectives from different geographical, linguistic, and (trans)national contexts, the book is organised in three interconnected clusters, each of which foregrounds a particular aspect of poetic practice as it relates to genders and sexualities: Body Poetics; Queer Poetics of Diaspora and the Contact Zone; and Histories, Media and Material Culture.

Mapping the ways in which poetics shapes theoretical dialogues as well as the way poetics is, in turn, shaped by these dialogues, this book builds on earlier scholarship on feminist and queer poetics and on recent work on queer dimensions of canonical poetics. It also pushes the field forward by thinking about gender and sexuality through a wide range of emerging theoretical and political contexts, and by interrogating poetic genealogies and proposing new forms of engagement at the nexus of poetics, gender, and sexuality.

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
PART 1: Body Poetics
Introduction: Elena Basile (York University, UK) and Heather Milne (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
1. “Poetics of Disability: Sex/Gender and the Different Body,” Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego, USA)
2. “Queer Corporeal Poetics and the Medical Gothic,” Laura Westengard (City University of New York USA)
3. “Mad Subjects and the Feminine Poetics of Ethics: The Messiah and the Mystic,” Concetta Principe (Trent University, Canada)
4. “Ecopoetics and the Crip Body,” Orchid Tierney (Kenyon College, USA)
5. “Unbinding Posthumanism: Indigiqueer Poetics of Radical Kin and Infinite Futures,” Bahareh Azad (University of Isfahan, Iran)
6. “The Poetry of AIDS: [S]inging your secret names till the night's gone,” Scott Rayter (University of Toronto, Canada)
7. “Reproductive Bodies and Poetic Matterings: Thinking with nourbeSe philip, Joyelle McSweeney, and Dana Ward,” Erin Wunker (Dalhousie University, Canada)
8. “Trans Poetics Before (and After) the Body: Figurae and their Discontents,” Trish Salah (Queen's University, Canada)

PART 2: Queer Poetics of Diaspora and the Contact Zone
9. “Speculative Gender in Latin American Poetics,” Isabel Gomez (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
10. “Queer Tidalectics in Puerto Rican Poetry After Hurricane Maria,” Natasha Tanna (University of York, UK)
11. “Communal Authorship in Translation: Intimate Proliferations,” Sarah Dowling (University of Toronto, Canada)
12. “Reproductive Poetics at the Border,” Julia Bloch (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
13. “Black Queer Feminist Poetics: Rereading the Intersection,” Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (Georgetown University, USA)
14. “Performing and Textualizing Masculinities: Dub Poetry from Jamaica and its Diaspora,” Cornel Bogle (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

PART 3: Histories, Media and Material Cultures
15. “Queer Feminist Publishing and the Women's Liberation Movement: The Women's Press Collective,” Bethany Hicok (Williams College, USA)
16. “Legacies of Modernism in Postwar Feminist and Queer UK Poetry,” Romana Huk (University of Notre Dame, USA)
17. “Queer Beings, Supernatural Otherness and Non-Normative Imaginings in Romantic Poetry,” Greta Colombani (University of Cambridge, UK)
18. “Rereading Canonical Poets: Walt Whitman's Queer Democracy,” Alyson Brickey (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
19. “Heteropatriarchal Colonialism, Poetry and Reconceptualizing Reading Practices in Australia,” Ann Vickery (Deakin University, Australia)
20. “Women's Poetry and New Media: Poetic Communities from Podcasts to Instagram,” Lili Pâquet (University of New England, Australia)
21. “Digital Poetics and Cyber Feminism,” Dani Spinosa (Independent poet, Canada) and Kyle Flemmer (Independent writer, Canada)
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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jun 10 2027
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 560
ISBN 9781350519824
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Series Bloomsbury Handbooks
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Elena Basile

Elena Basile teaches at York University and the Un…

Anthology Editor

Heather Milne

Heather Milne is a Professor of English at the Uni…

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