Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing
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Book Overview Winner, 2023 CCCC Exemplar Award Honorable Mention, 2025 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exp...
Winner, 2023 CCCC Exemplar Award Honorable Mention, 2025 CCCC Outstanding Book Award
Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central to their writing practice. In a time of political, social, global, and ecological unrest, how might we understand desire--the desire for things to be different, the desire for a better world--as a crucial dimension of contemporary human experience? What might such a recentering of desire offer us, personally and politically? And how is writing itself, as one of the primary ways through which we express and explore ourselves, central to the expression and exploration of desire? Drawing on recent theoretical work in queer theory and the new materialism, Jonathan Alexander studies a range of queer and trans writers and artists who center desire in their practice and argues that conceptualizing writing as desire allows us to reexperience both writing and our world as saturated with our dreams and wishes for change. In a book both elegant and unsettling, and by turns personal, analytic, and experimental, Alexander challenges us--and himself--to think about desire and writing as the deepest manifestation of our hopes for the future.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 379 | Language: English | Publisher: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR | ISBN: 0822947773
FormatHardcover
Pages379
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0822947773
EAN9780822947776
PublisherUNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight2.2 Pounds
Length8.1 Inches
Width8.3 Inches
Height1.1 Inches
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