Queer Waiting, (Hardcover)

<p><b>The act and experience of waiting - and refusing to wait - is a central feature in queer people's lives: from waiting to come out, to waiting for political and social recognition, to refusing to wait while hard-won legal rights are taken away today.</b> </p><p>By tracing and exploring entanglements of queerness and waiting in fictional and autobiographical queer-themed narratives, this book proposes the new theoretical concept of "queer waiting". </p><p> Drawing on a diverse selection of narratives, genres, and cultural contexts, including early queer texts about gay men, texts about trans experiences and waiting for death during the AIDS epidemic, films such as <i>Brokeback Mountain</i> and the videogame <i>The Last of Us Part II</i>, Oscar von Seth argues that although waiting is a universal human activity and an unavoidable aspect of life, it can be understood as a distinct and specifically queer cultural phenomenon. </p><p> <i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.</i></p>

• Queer Waiting, (Hardcover)
• Author: Oscar Von Seth
• ISBN: 9781350582941
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-02-18
• Page Count: 240