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Imaginative Resistance, Queer Fiction and the Law Same-Sex Desire and the Good Life in Heteronormative Orders
By Aleardo Zanghellini
Copyright 2022
186 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
186 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Imaginative Resistance, Queer Fiction and the Law develops a novel account of how heteronormative sociolegal orders undermine the well-being of same-sex attracted people, even when these normative orders may fall short of coercively interfering with their choices. Queer well-being is generally studied from psychological perspectives, through the concept of ‘minority stress.’
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Introduction 1. Imaginative Resistance in and beyond Fiction 2. Same-Sex Desire in Britain and the United States, Circa 1946-1961 3. Charles Jackson’s The Fall of Valor (1946) 4. Gillian Freeman’s The Leather Boys (1961) 5. Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt (1952) and The Talented Mr Ripley (1955) Conclusions
Biography
Aleardo Zanghellini, Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of Reading, UK
