... erotic science fiction Melzer Patricia perverse desire science fiction erotica pornography queer sex science fiction erotica queer theory science fiction sex sexuality sexually explicit science fiction Tan Cecilia technology Armonia Recondita ‘Flesh of My Flesh’ Christian M ‘Fully...

...This chapter evaluates the limitations of the coming race and investigates the possibility for inducing a queer futurity. It focuses on the works of Kim Stanley Robinson, the Mars trilogy, which provides a utopic vision of racialization and invites the readers into visualizing...

...The methodology of the book means that writers’ engagement with Barthes is what is studied, but this risks erasing writers who shy away from him. This chapter considers why some poets, particularly those who are people of colour and/or queer, reject Barthes aesthetically and politically. This issue...

... on the relationship between the representation of southern Italian masculinity and of black feminity, interrogating the position of the queer viewer in relation to the movie. It also ponders on what kind of conception of culture, and of Sicilian culture in particular, the movie constructs. Balibar Etienne...

...This chapter expands the analysis of Chapter 2, turning to The White Peacock (1911), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920) to redress an oversight in Lawrence’s reception: the absence of a queer Lawrence. The chapter reads three respective...

..., Wieners, a homosexual and gender-nonconforming person, exemplifies one avenue for the liberatory potential for queer poetries in this pre-Stonewall moment. Black Mountain College Blaser Robin Creeley Robert di Prima Diane Duncan Robert Dunn Joe Ginsberg Allen Greenwich Village Jonas Stephen...

...Christian Bancroft adopts the approach of “queering translation” to Pound’s controversial renderings of the Latin poetry of Sextus Propertius in Homage to Sextus Propertius. Based on the work of William Spurlin and others, Bancroft clarifies that, as a methodology, queering...

...This chapter examines notions of HIV infection and the practices associated with the choices of bareback or unsafe sex and how they contribute to subject-formation in some contemporary queer literature by analysing the works of Guillaume Dustan and Erik Rémès. In particular, it considers the ways...

... de France (2012). He is also the author of Révoltes extraordinaires: un enfant du sida autour du monde (2011) and Le Coran et La Chair (2012), and co-author of Queer Muslim Marriage (2013). During the last few years, the French media have...

...In this chapter, I provide a synthesis of the different categories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French subjects we have seen throughout the chapters -- those who are French born or émigrés, those who are working class or middle class, and those who are authors and artists...

...This chapter explores the queer temporalities at work in the fiction of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. The analysis draws from the work of queer theorists who have shown the various ways in which sexuality and temporality are enmeshed, from the life schedules deemed healthy for child...

... and the extraordinary of the women’s lives. This chapter argues that queer, ageing women are the most invisible in Irish society. The play, a work of intergenerational dialogue, successfully challenges areas of persistent blindness and marginalisation in Irish contemporary culture, thereby succeeding in normalising...

...Chapter Six addresses the encounter between “new queer cinema” and environmental politics, through an exploration of the poet Andi Nachon’s contribution to the film Esteros (Curotto, 2016), a more subtle example of poetry’s presence on screen. By highlighting the screenwriter’s...

...A personal and lyric exploration of the nature of the queer canon, remembrance and legacy. The chapter offers up close readings of Norse’s work, and opens up into a wider discussion about where Norse is placed, or not, within the queer canon and why this might be, in comparsion to some of his...

...This chapter argues that the centering of the uterine replicator in Lois McMaster Bujold’s most recent Vorkosigan novel, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen forces a reorientation of reproduction and kinship alongside a queering of the Vorkosigan Saga. The chapter shows how...

...This chapter focuses on Smollett's most iconic avuncular figure: Commodore Trunnion in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751). Drawing on queer theory, it offers a closer look at the arrested development and eccentric lifestyle of Trunnion and his companions. A key aim...

...The introduction sets out the field of critical kinship studies and its relation to diaspora studies, black Atlantic studies and queer studies. It offers an overview of relevant works of diaspora and black Atlantic studies and queer studies, and how these fields are brought together...

...This chapter highlights the ways in which the biblical and apocryphal stories of three childless women warriors named Deborah, Jael, and Judith use the language and imagery of motherhood to cast these women as figurative mothers. It applies queer theory and the concepts of gender performance...

..., this paper dwells on the loving kinds of transmogrifying affects that act as forces and as labile materialities. Queer intimacies that transfer between Adrian and Lionel not only alter ontologies (Lionel’s becoming man from animal and back again), but they also rearrange human and animal relations into queer...

...This chapter turns to James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys (2001) to examine their (meta)modernist engagements with Casement and Ireland’s queer (post)colonial politics. Casement is mentioned by name in both texts and is a figure...