UID:
almahu_9948564059502882
Format:
XI, 202 p. 8 illus. in color.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2020.
ISBN:
9783030521141
Series Statement:
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Content:
This book examines the queer implications of memory and nationhood in transcultural U.S. literature and culture. Through an analysis of art and photography responding to the U.S. domestic response to 9/11, Iraq war fiction, representations of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, and migrant fiction in the twenty-first century, Christopher W. Clark creates a queer archive of transcultural U.S. texts as a way of destabilizing heteronormativity and thinking about productive spaces of queer world-building. Drawing on the fields of transcultural memory, queer studies, and transculturalism, this book raises important questions of queer bodies and subjecthood. Clark traces their legacies through texts by Sinan Antoon, Mohamedou Ould Slahi among others, alongside film and photography that includes artists such as Nina Berman and Hasan Elahi. In all, the book queers forms of cultural memory and national identity to uncover the traces of injury but also spaces of regeneration.
Note:
Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: American Avengers -- Chapter Three: We Could Be Heroes -- Chapter Four: Black Sites -- Chapter five: Emergent Queers -- Chapter six: Conclusion. .
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030521134
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030521158
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030521165
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-52114-1
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52114-1
