Gothic Queer Culture by Laura Westengard HARDBACK 9781496202048

Gothic Queer Culture\nby Laura Westengard\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Laura Westengard\nTitle: Gothic Queer Culture\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Gender studies, gender groups\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781496202048\nISBN-10: 149620204X\nRRP: \u00A345.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought\u2014including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performance\u2014Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twe.