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- Book Title
- Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory
- Publication Date
- 2014-11-05
- Pages
- 248
- ISBN
- 9780199340200
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019934020X
ISBN-13
9780199340200
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038284176
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Publication Name
Lost Causes : Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Subject
Lgbt Studies / General, Rhetoric, American / General, LGBT, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-005144
Reviews
"Belief in causality's legibility is a cause well lost for Valerie Rohy. Her provocative new book, Lost Causes, brings out the queer contingency of things and brilliantly examines the effects-at once social, political, and interpretative-of living with indeterminacy. The result should cause all to take note."-Lee Edelman, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive "In Lost Causes, Valerie Rohy brilliantly deconstructs a long tradition of gay etiology, not to ask the usual illogical questions about the causes of homosexuality, but to ask why we ask and how we ask. She offers us a refreshing new way to read those great novels of gay origins-all those pictures of Dorian Gray and those wells of loneliness, which are more elusive than we often think."-Ellis Hanson, author of Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film "...There is no doubt that Lost Causes will find enthusiastic readers among literary scholars and queer theorists." -- Jana Funke, University of Exeter, "Belief in causality's legibility is a cause well lost for Valerie Rohy. Her provocative new book, Lost Causes, brings out the queer contingency of things and brilliantly examines the effects-at once social, political, and interpretative-of living with indeterminacy. The result should cause all to take note."-Lee Edelman, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive"In Lost Causes, Valerie Rohy brilliantly deconstructs a long tradition of gay etiology, not to ask the usual illogical questions about the causes of homosexuality, but to ask why we ask and how we ask. She offers us a refreshing new way to read those great novels of gay origins-all those pictures of Dorian Gray and those wells of loneliness, which are more elusive than we often think."-Ellis Hanson, author of Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film "...There is no doubt that Lost Causes will find enthusiastic readers among literary scholars and queer theorists." -- Jana Funke, University of Exeter, "Belief in causality's legibility is a cause well lost for Valerie Rohy. Her provocative new book, Lost Causes, brings out the queer contingency of things and brilliantly examines the effects-at once social, political, and interpretative-of living with indeterminacy. The result should cause all to take note."-Lee Edelman, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive "In Lost Causes, Valerie Rohy brilliantly deconstructs a long tradition of gay etiology, not to ask the usual illogical questions about the causes of homosexuality, but to ask why we ask and how we ask. She offers us a refreshing new way to read those great novels of gay origins-all those pictures of Dorian Gray and those wells of loneliness, which are more elusive than we often think."-Ellis Hanson, author of Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, "Belief in causality's legibility is a cause well lost for Valerie Rohy. Her provocative new book, Lost Causes, brings out the queer contingency of things and brilliantly examines the effects-at once social, political, and interpretative-of living with indeterminacy. The result should cause all to take note."-Lee Edelman, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive"In Lost Causes, Valerie Rohy brilliantly deconstructs a long tradition of gay etiology, not to ask the usual illogical questions about the causes of homosexuality, but to ask why we ask and how we ask. She offers us a refreshing new way to read those great novels of gay origins-all those pictures of Dorian Gray and those wells of loneliness, which are more elusive than we often think."-Ellis Hanson, author of Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory andFilm"...There is no doubt that Lost Causes will find enthusiastic readers among literary scholars and queer theorists." -- Jana Funke, University of Exeter
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
809/.93352664
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Cause and Effect2. On Homosexual Reproduction3. Strange Influence: The Picture of Dorian Gray4. Return from the Future: James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography5. Desire and the Scene of Reading: The Well of Loneliness6. The Future in Ruins: Borrowed Time7. Contingency for Beginners: The Night Watch8. Conclusion: Multiply and DivideNotes
Synopsis
Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology - that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, "recruitment," or biology. Reading etiology as a narrative form, political strategy, and hermeneutic method in American and British literature and popular culture, it argues that today's gay arguments for biological determinism accept their opponents' paranoia about what Rohy calls "homosexual reproduction"-that is, nonsexual forms of queer increase-preventing more complex ways of considering sexuality and causality. This study combines literary texts and psychoanalytic theory - two salient sources of etiological narratives in themselves - to reconsider phobic tropes of homosexual reproduction: contagion in Borrowed Time, bad influence in The Picture of Dorian Gray, trauma in The Night Watch, choice of identity in James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, and dangerous knowledge in The Well of Loneliness. These readings draw on Lacan's notion of retroactive causality to convert the question of what causes homosexuality into a question of what homosexuality causes as the constitutive outside of a heteronormative symbolic order. Ultimately, this study shows, queer communities and queer theory must embrace formerly shaming terms - why should the increase of homosexuality be unthinkable? - while retaining the critical sense of queerness as a non-identity, a permanent negativity., Causality dominates today's discussions of LGBT rights: anti-gay voices imagine gay proliferation through seduction, influence, and corruption, while queer communities largely embrace biological determinism, saying they are "born gay." Reading popular rhetoric, psychoanalytic theory, and British and American literature from the late nineteenth century through the present day, Lost Causes decenters etiology from queer politics, engages abject tropes of "homosexual reproduction," and considers the effects of retroactive, absent, and contingent causality., Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology -- that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, "recruitment," or biology., Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology -- that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, "recruitment," or biology. Reading etiology as a narrative form, political strategy, and hermeneutic method in American and British literature and popular culture, it argues that today's gay arguments for biological determinism accept their opponents' paranoia about what Rohy calls "homosexual reproduction"-that is, nonsexual forms of queer increase-preventing more complex ways of considering sexuality and causality. This study combines literary texts and psychoanalytic theory--two salient sources of etiological narratives in themselves -- to reconsider phobic tropes of homosexual reproduction: contagion in Borrowed Time, bad influence in The Picture of Dorian Gray, trauma in The Night Watch, choice of identity in James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, and dangerous knowledge in The Well of Loneliness. These readings draw on Lacan's notion of retroactive causality to convert the question of what causes homosexuality into a question of what homosexuality causes as the constitutive outside of a heteronormative symbolic order. Ultimately, this study shows, queer communities and queer theory must embrace formerly shaming terms -- why should the increase of homosexuality be unthinkable? -- while retaining the critical sense of queerness as a non-identity, a permanent negativity.
LC Classification Number
PS169.H65R64 2015
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