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By Tyler Bradway

This quantity argues that postwar writers queer the affective kinfolk of studying via experiments with literary shape. Tyler Bradway conceptualizes “bad analyzing” as an affective politics that stimulates queer kin of erotic and political belonging within the occasion of examining. those incipiently social kin press again opposed to criminal, fiscal, and discursive forces that decrease queerness right into a mode of individuality. each one bankruptcy lines the affective politics of undesirable examining opposed to moments whilst queer relationality is against the law, obstructed, or destroyed—from the pre-Stonewall literary obscenity debates, during the AIDS difficulty, to the emergence of neoliberal homonormativity and the gentrification of the queer avant-garde. Bradway contests the typical narrative that experimental writing is simply too formalist to engender a method of social mind's eye. in its place, he illuminates how queer experimental literature makes use of shape to redraw the affective and social kin that constitution the heteronormative public sphere. via shut readings proficient via have an effect on conception, Queer Experimental Literature deals new views on writers similar to William S. Burroughs, Samuel R. Delany, Kathy Acker, Jeanette Winterson, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Alison Bechdel, and Chuck Palahniuk. Queer Experimental Literature eventually finds that the new flip to affective examining in literary reports is underwritten by means of a para-academic historical past of undesirable interpreting that provides new idioms for knowing the affective corporations of queer aesthetics.

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