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Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908-1979
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Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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Veröffentl.: | 07.05.2024 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9783031560309 |
Sprache: | englisch |
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<p>This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies of a variety of texts, this book demonstrates the merits of bridging the gap between the “de-naturalizing” project of gender and queer theory on the one hand, and, on the other, the ecocritical centering of material, nonhuman environments.<b></b></p><br><p></p>
<p>Chapter 1: Sexualities and Environments in the Norwegian 20th Century.- Part 1: Love between Women as Challenge to the Othering of the Nonhuman.- Chapter 2: Elusive Sapphism.- Chapter 3: Urban Environments in the Lesbian Canon.- Part 2: The Gay Male Pastoral.- Chapter 4: The Political Ambiguity of Pastoral.- Chapter 5: Re-Claiming the Nonhuman.- Chapter 6: Queering the Environment</p>
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<p><strong>Per Esben Svelstad</strong> is Associate Professor of Norwegian in the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.<b></b></p><br><p></p>
<p>This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies of a variety of texts, this book demonstrates the merits of bridging the gap between the “de-naturalizing” project of gender and queer theory on the one hand, and, on the other, the ecocritical centering of material, nonhuman environments.<b></b></p><p></p><p><strong>Per Esben Svelstad</strong> is Associate Professor of Norwegian in the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.<b></b></p><br><p></p>
Offers the most comprehensive study in English of Norwegian LGBTQ literary history Explores ideas of the environment and the nonhuman in literary depictions of same-sex desire Brings together scholarship on gender, queer theory, and ecocriticism