{"product_id":"queer-disappearance-in-modern-and-benjamin-bateman-9780192896339","title":"Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction","description":"\u003cem\u003eQueer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first-century queer literary production. The study theorizes a \"perish-performative\" that allows for agency in practices of abeyance, and it discovers within queerness's ample archive of vanishing acts an environmental ethos antithetical to inflationary versions of the human. Tying modernist classics by E.M. Forster and Willa Cather to Andrew Holleran's gay classic \u003cem\u003eDancer from the Dance\u003c\/em\u003e, and then moving to the contemporary ecogothic of Lydia Millet's \u003cem\u003eHow the Dead Dream\u003c\/em\u003e and the trans decadence of Shola von Reinhold's \u003cem\u003eLote\u003c\/em\u003e, the book refuses the common wisdom that queerness becomes louder and prouder over time, delineating instead a minimalist and daydreaming subjectivity wherein queerness finds escape, respite, and varied opportunities for imaginative reverie. This precarious subjectivity, necessitated but not defined by oppression and obstacle, rewards and restores the queer self, and it also contests the logics of development, acquisition, and productivity that wreak havoc on the planet and entrench social disparities of race, class, and ability. \u003cem\u003eQueer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e supplies multiple accounts of the collective and personal pleasures, possibilities, and perils to be found in pulling away, going missing, and taking a break.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Bateman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192896334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192896339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.20d","brand":"Benjamin Bateman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44074718036223,"sku":"9780192896339","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_adbfadd4-22b2-4272-b166-2b82a907c25c.jpg?v=1685455369","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queer-disappearance-in-modern-and-benjamin-bateman-9780192896339","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}