1st Edition
Modernism’s Queer Parents Parenthood in Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust
By Anchit Sathi
Copyright 2026
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood are experienced, processed, and enacted by queer characters in selected works by Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust—authors now widely regarded as queer, despite not having claimed such an identity in their own time. The selected texts include Mann’s Chaotic World and... Read more
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: THE QUEER MOMENT
CHAPTER TWO: THE QUEER TEXT-CHILD
CHAPTER THREE: THE QUEER PARENTAL FIGURE
CONCLUSION
Biography
Anchit Sathi has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Potsdam in Germany and the University of Washington in Seattle. Until recently, he was also a fellow at the Institute for Queer Theory in Berlin, Germany.
