Christopher Lloyd: A Queer Bestiary, Kartoniert / Broschiert
A Queer Bestiary
- Non/Humans in Contemporary U.S. Literature
- Publisher:
- University of Georgia Press, 12/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780820380513
- Item number:
- 12651722
- Volume:
- 256 Pages
- Release date:
- 1.12.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
The slippery and mutable boundaries between humans and nonhumans are frequently figured queerly in twenty-first-century U. S. literature. This innovative book examines the ways that nonhumans are brought into intimate, estranging contact with humans in contemporary novels, short stories, poems, and nonfiction. Through detailed attention to a selection of real and imagined flora, fauna, and other phenomena in the bestiary form--from horses to taxidermy to dogs and extinction--the book probes the ways in which the humans and the nonhumans are queerly entangled. Organized like a Medieval bestiary, this book contributes to a range of fields, including contemporary literary studies, American studies, posthuman and animal studies, queer studies, and more. Non / human relations are explored through close readings of fiction by writers, including Ocean Vuong, Justin Torres, Kristen Arnett, and Percival Everett; poetry by Danez Smith, Tommy Pico, Franny Choi, and Donika Kelly; and nonfiction by Mark Doty, Sabrina Imbler, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, among others. In all, A Queer Bestiary argues that the human has never been solid, distinct, or singular; that various nonhumans open questions of queerness; and that recent literary representations of humans and nonhumans queer the boundaries between these two categories.
Biography
Christopher Lloyd studierte Geschichte in Cambridge und arbeitete anschließend als Redakteur und mehrfach ausgezeichneter Wissenschaftsjournalist für die englische Wochenzeitung The Sunday Times. Nachdem er einige Jahre in den Bereichen neue Medien- und Bildungssoftware tätig war, brach er 2006 mit seiner Frau und seinen beiden Kindern zu ausgedehnten Reisen durch ganz Europa auf.More from Christopher Lloyd