History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War / Natalie Marena Nobitz

• Autore: Nobitz Natalie Marena <p>Natalie Marena Nobitz, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Deutschland </p>
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.93353
• Soggetto topico: British War Literature; Queer; Homosexuality; Military; Second World War; Gender; Literature; British Studies; Queer Theory; Gender Studies; Gender History; Literary Studies
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Never in the History of Sex was so Much Offered to so Many by so Few" -- "People's Pasts [are] so Much More Interesting than Their Futures" - Re-Negotiating the Homosexual Problem Novel -- "We Have to Do the Things They Tell Us" - Nation, Masculinity and War -- "The Collapse of a Wall [...] Starts with a Few Loose Bricks" - Queering Space, Body and Time -- "No Sense of a Tidy Ending": Resisting Closure -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Critical analysis of the dramatisation of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have seldom focused on literary representations of homosexuality during the war. Natalie Marena Nobitz closes a glaring gap in the critical attention of four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalised heteronormativity: Walter Baxter's Look Down in Mercy (1951), Mary Renault's The Charioteer (1953), Sarah Waters'The Night Watch (2006) and Adam Fitzroy's Make Do and Mend (2012).; »Through her readings of these novels, Nobitz deftly explores how the war both policed and anabled outlawed queer desires.«; Besprochen in:The Gay & Lesbian Review, 1 (2020), Dale BoylerDHIVA, Sommer 2020, Ulrich Brömmling
• Altri titoli varianti: Nobitz, History's Queer Stories Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War
• Titolo autorizzato: History's Queer Stories
• ISBN: 9783839445433; 3839445434
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910476920003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Queer studies ; ; Volume 19.