Chances Are: Contingency, Queer Theory and American Literature

by Val Rohy

This innovative work makes use of psychoanalytic, queer, and narrative theories to read nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and demonstrate how the concept of contingency-whether chance, accident, luck, or mutation-enriches our understanding of how queer sexualities are articulated.

Perhaps love always carries an element of contingency (our attraction to a particular person can be arbitrary and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138290580
• ISBN13: 9781138290587
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"