Overview

This book examines the queer implications of memory and nationhood in transcultural U.S. literature and culture. Through an analysis of art and photography responding to the U.S. domestic response to 9/11, Iraq war fiction, representations of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, and migrant fiction in the twenty-first century, Christopher W. Clark creates a queer archive of transcultural U.S. texts as a way of destabilizing heteronormativity and thinking about productive spaces of queer world-building. Drawing on the fields of transcultural memory, queer studies, and transculturalism, this book raises important questions of queer bodies and subjecthood. Clark traces their legacies through texts by Sinan Antoon, Mohamedou Ould Slahi among others, alongside film and photography that includes artists such as Nina Berman and Hasan Elahi. In all, the book queers forms of cultural memory and national identity to uncover the traces of injury but also spaces of regeneration.

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Author:   Christopher W. Clark
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.288kg
ISBN:  

9783030521165

ISBN 10:   3030521168
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   22 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION.. 6 THE US STATE AND 9/11 QUEER STUDIES AND IDENTITY. 15 THE GLOBAL STATE. 17 CHAPTERS CHAPTER TWO: AMERICAN AVENGERS GOD-GIVEN FREEDOMS DEMARCATING SPACES. 33 BANAL AESTHETICS. 38 AC/KNOWLEDGE/MENT. 43 CHAPTER THREE: WE COULD BE HEROES. 54 VIOLENT ANIMALS. 59 MULTIVALENT DISPLACEMENTS. 64 RELATING FAILURE. 68 TRAVERSING BORDERS. 77 CHAPTER FOUR: BLACK SITES. 86 DARK IMPLICATIONS. 89 RESISTANCE AND RETALIATIONS. 94 QUEER CONTROL. 101 EMPATHETIC PALIMPSESTS. 108 CHAPTER FIVE: EMERGENT QUEERS. 117 MYTHICAL MOVEMENT. 119 COMMUNITY AND BELONGING.. 125 NORMATIVE LEGACIES. 131 BATTLING FANTASIES. 138 CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION.. 146 INDEX. 153

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Christopher W. Clark is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.  

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