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Same old

Queer theory, literature and the politics of sameness

By Ben Nichols

Same old
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  • Publish Date: Jul 2020
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    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 232
    • Price: £25.00
    • Published Date: June 2022

    Description

    Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to 'sameness' only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus - uselessness, reproduction, normativity and reductionism - and reveals their unexpected formal and thematic importance to a range of queer literary genres from across the long twentieth century: fin-de-siècle aestheticism, feminist speculative fiction, lesbian middlebrow writing, and the 'stud file' or record of serial sex. Demonstrating how queer cultural objects often stand at odds with the frameworks that have been meant to help interpret and comprehend them, Same old interrogates the genealogy of the aversion to sameness that has kept those frameworks in place.

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    'Same Old makes a significant contribution to the recent appraisals of critique-as-method that have encouraged scholars to imagine how a field might organize itself in terms other than an Oedipal drama... Same Old nonetheless opens up some tantalizing questions for such a project, as well as for broader considerations of sameness itself.'
    American Literary History Review

    Contents

    Introduction: Same old
    1. Useless
    2. Reproductive
    3. Normative
    4. Reductive
    Coda: Same again
    References

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    Ben Nichols is a Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Manchester

    Same old

    By Ben Nichols

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