1st Edition
Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class Class Notes and Queer-ies
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Maria Alexopoulos, Tomasz Basiuk, Susanne Hochreiter, and Tijana Ristic Kern
Chapter 1: “And they would scream Revolution!”: radical lesbian class action in 1970s feminist manifestos and Michelle Tea’s Valencia
Maria Alexopoulos, Krystyna Mazur, and Tijana Ristic Kern
Chapter 2: “Contact – however brief – outside the prison of my class is what I still desire.” Interclass sexual contact in personal essays by Bruce Benderson and Samuel R. Delany
Tomasz Basiuk
Chapter 3: Empowering Aesthetics: Queer Temporalities and Precarious Existence in Isabel Waidner’s Novels
Eveline Kilian
Chapter 4: About Worlds and Words – Habitus and Precariousness in Annie Ernaux’s A Woman’s Story
Julia Lingl and Naomi Lobnig
Chapter 5: Happy Little People: Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Hans Fallada’s Kleiner Mann – was nun? and Kristine Bilkau’s Die Glücklichen
Susanne Hochreiter
Chapter 6: Queering Dark Academia
Anna Kurowicka
Chapter 7: Roundtable: Queer and Class in Theory and (Academic) Practice
Tamara Radak (convener), Maria Alexopoulos, Tomasz Basiuk, Susanne Hochreiter, Ludmiła Janion, Eveline Kilian, Karolina Krasuska, Anna Kurowicka, Julia Lingl, Krystyna Mazur, and Tijana Ristic Kern
Index
Biography
Maria Alexopoulos teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where she researches queer and feminist theory and the politics and representation of feminine adolescence.
Tomasz Basiuk is Professor of American Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, whose current focus is on queer studies.
Susanne Hochreiter is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, whose current focus is on gender and queer studies.
Tijana Ristic Kern works at the Department of English and American Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, where she researches aesthetics and politics of queer hybrid life writing in twentieth-century British and American writing.
