Queering the Moderns: Poses/Portraits/Performances

by Anne Herrmann

In Queering the Moderns, Anne Herrmann revisits the narrative of literary modernism and the historical uses of the term "queer" to explore the emergence of identities specific to modernism. "Queer" in the modernist period (1910-1945) means "strange, odd, out of sorts" and although it begins to refer to those who are queer sexually, it does not yet police a hetero-homosexual divide. It means crossing boundaries in unexpected directions, across the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312233272
• ISBN13: 9780312233273
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"