History's Queer Stories

Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4543-9
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 310 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

Reihe: Queer Studies

Critical analysis of the dramatisation of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have seldom focused on literary representations of homosexuality during the war. Natalie Marena Nobitz closes a glaring gap in the critical attention of four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalised heteronormativity: Walter Baxter's Look Down in Mercy (1951), Mary Renault's The Charioteer (1953), Sarah Waters'

The Night Watch (2006) and Adam Fitzroy's Make Do and Mend (2012).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nobitz, Natalie Marena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Natalie Marena Nobitz, born in 1989, works in the office for equal opportunities at the University of Hagen, Germany, and teaches Literary Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Kiel, Germany.