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Speaking out to survive : = Literary activism and queer domesticity in life writing.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Speaking out to survive :/
其他題名:	Literary activism and queer domesticity in life writing.
作者:	Chamberlain, Edward A.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (329 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 74-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International74-06A.
標題:	Comparative literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3543210click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781267719225

Speaking out to survive : = Literary activism and queer domesticity in life writing.
Chamberlain, Edward A.

Speaking out to survive :Literary activism and queer domesticity in life writing. - 1 online resource (329 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 74-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references

Near the end of the twentieth century, artists and critics increasingly grappled with the question of how gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people relate to their families and loved ones in the domestic sphere. Anthropologists and sociologists already have studied these matters in some depth, yet there exists limited research about how nonfiction writings written by people of color and migrants depict the gendered and sexual dimensions of family life. To expand our knowledge of the subject, this dissertation examines how nonfiction and other texts comment on the social relationships between queer people and those who are their biological family, or family by choice. In particular, this dissertation evaluates how writers from the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States portray the challenges and joys that queer migrants and others experience when they speak out about familial relationships through writing. In this project, I assert that personal expression about family functions as a powerful form of activism due to how it can create positive change and transform cultural attitudes. Due to the texts' transformative quality, I recognize my archive as being an extension of larger social movements, which aim to liberate queer people from cultural and institutional restraints. I argue that this life-writing constitutes what I am calling, "literary activism" because of how the texts intervene in public debates and attempt to recreate our world as a sexual democracy. To study these artistic writings, I employ Nayan Shah's concept of "queer domesticity" because it provides a critical lens for elucidating the social relations that arise as LGBT people participate in, or remake the familial sphere in queer terms. By comparing these texts, we gain a more nuanced understanding of the ways that human beings experience the interplay of family, homelife and sexual orientation. Comparing these texts ultimately leads us to a more informed perspective of the ways that queer and heterosexual people experience kinship today.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781267719225Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

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Electronic books.

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