1st Edition
Queer Autobibliography Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging
By Umasankar Patra
Copyright 2026
174 Pages
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Routledge
Christopher Isherwood and Edmund White engage with autobiographical genres and negotiate their queer subjectivity in radical ways. Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging argues that this negotiation takes place in and through books: books they write, publish, help to publish, read, borrow, lend, gift, and learn from. Books and reading become sites as well as strategies in... Read more
1. Queer Autobibliography: Ethics of Lifewriting
2. Pausing the Narrative: Queer Time in Prater Violet and My Lives
3. Readers and Reading: Queer Sociality in Down There on a Visit and A Previous Life
4. Aestheticization of Queer Desire: Queer Writing in Lost Years and The Loves of My Life
5. “Perhaps because I lived in a World Made of Words”: Autobibliography in Isherwood and White
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Biography
Umasankar Patra is an assistant professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
