Description: In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, she delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities.
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EAN: 9780252079160
UPC: 9780252079160
ISBN: 9780252079160
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Book Title: Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Strange Natures : Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Lgbt Studies / General, Gender Studies, General, Ecology
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.1 Oz
Author: Nicole Seymour
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Nature, Social Science
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
