Same Old by Ben Nichols

Same Old by Ben Nichols

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Summary

This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory—steeped in philosophical, theoretical and political commitments to 'difference'—have obscured the important investments in 'sameness' that have been central to queer history. Same old dwells on these investments and elucidates their significance. -- .

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Same Old by Ben Nichols

Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to ‘difference’, queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to ‘sameness’ only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus – uselessness, reproduction, normativity and reductionism – and reveals their unexpected formal and thematic importance to a range of queer literary genres from across the long twentieth century: fin-de-siècle aestheticism, feminist speculative fiction, lesbian middlebrow writing, and the ‘stud file’ or record of serial sex. Demonstrating how queer cultural objects often stand at odds with the frameworks that have been meant to help interpret and comprehend them, Same old interrogates the genealogy of the aversion to sameness that has kept those frameworks in place. -- .
Ben Nichols is a Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Manchester
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ISBN 13 9781526132833
ISBN 10 1526132834
Title Same Old
Author Ben Nichols
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Year published 2020-07-07
Number of pages 232
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