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Not Feeling Right: Queer Encounters with American Women's Writing

Edelstein, Sari

Legacy (Amherst, Mass.), 2020-01, Vol.37 (1), p.145-153 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

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  • Título:
    Not Feeling Right: Queer Encounters with American Women's Writing
  • Autor: Edelstein, Sari
  • Assuntos: 19th century ; Aesthetics ; African American literature ; American literature ; Anatomical systems ; Authorship ; Ecofeminism ; Erotica ; Feminist literary criticism ; Gender ; Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849-1909) ; Larsen, Nella ; Literary characters ; Literary criticism ; Literature ; Morality ; Novels ; Pedagogy ; Poetry ; Politics ; Reading ; Review Essay ; Sexuality ; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) ; Women ; Writing
  • É parte de: Legacy (Amherst, Mass.), 2020-01, Vol.37 (1), p.145-153
  • Descrição: [...]the deconstructive project of queer criticism unseats binaristic understandings of gender, productively destabilizing the very category of female authorship on which this field has largely depended. [...]queer theory reveals gender and sex norms to be culturally produced and historically contingent, an especially vital perspective from which to read nineteenth-century women's writing, a body of work that offers a veritable index and pedagogy of normativity. Looking back to Deborah McDowell's 1986 introduction to Nella Larsen's Passing, it is clear that the study of women's writing has long understood both race and sexuality as slippery social constructions that cannot be treated in isolation. [...]while it may be tempting for some to see queer theory as a dashing arriviste that might revive or even replace the long-standing critical tradition and political engagement that scholarship on women's writing represents, the works surveyed here reveal a far more complex and mutually constitutive interplay between these methods. The most sustained contribution in this vein is J. Samaine Lockwood's Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism (reviewed in Legacy 34.2), which reads regionalism as a mode of disturbing teleological accounts of history, what she describes as "a interdisciplinary movement of women interested in thinking historically" (6). In a rigorous account of Frances Harper's deployment of sentimentalism, Schuller describes how Harper capitalized on and contributed to impression theory in her poems, novels, and pamphlets, making the case for black impressibility and revealing how aesthetic and sensory engagement, especially touch, served as an essential component of physiological, psychological, and social development.
  • Editor: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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