Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory

✍ Scribed by Valerie Rohy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Causality dominates today's discussions of LGBT rights: anti-gay voices imagine gay proliferation through seduction, influence, and corruption, while queer communities largely embrace biological determinism, saying they are "born gay." Reading popular rhetoric, psychoanalytic theory, and British and American literature from the late nineteenth century through the present day, Lost Causes decenters etiology from queer politics, engages abject tropes of "homosexual reproduction," and considers the effects of retroactive, absent, and contingent causality.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Cause and Effect
2. On Homosexual Reproduction
3. Strange Influence: The Picture of Dorian Gray
4. Return from the Future: James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography
5. Desire and the Scene of Reading: The Well of Loneliness
6. The Future in Ruins: Borrowed Time
7. Contingency for Beginners: The Night Watch
8. Conclusion: Multiply and Divide
Notes
Index

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