Vulnerable Constitutions : Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood Hardback
by Cynthia Barounis
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Amputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized.
In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternative-even resistant-epistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity.
She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulated-rather than created a crisis for-masculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of "anti-prophylactic citizenship"-a mode of political belonging characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and risk-to examine counternarratives of American masculinity.
Investigating the work of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity.
Her literary readings interweave queer theory, disability studies, and the history of medicine to demonstrate how evolving scientific conversations around deviant genders and sexualities gave rise to a new model of national belonging-ultimately rewriting the story of American masculinity as a story of queer-crip rebellion.
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- Pages:282 pages, 2 halftones
- Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:24/05/2019
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- ISBN:9781439915066
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:282 pages, 2 halftones
- Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:24/05/2019
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- ISBN:9781439915066