Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nobitz, Natalie Marena,

Titel

History's queer stories : retrieving and navigating homosexuality inBritish fiction about the Second World War

Auflage

1st ed

Ort / Verlag

Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2018]

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 List of Abbreviations 9 Introduction: "Never in the History of Sex was so Much Offered to so Many by so Few" 11 "People's Pasts [are] so Much More Interesting than Their Futures" - Re-Negotiating the Homosexual Problem Novel 63 "We Have to Do the Things They Tell Us" - Nation, Masculinity and War 135 "The Collapse of a Wall [...] Starts with a Few Loose Bricks" - Queering Space, Body and Time 207 "No Sense of a Tidy Ending": Resisting Closure 267 Bibliography 289 Index 307
• 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).
• Besprochen in: The Gay & Lesbian Review, 1 (2020), Dale Boyler DHIVA, Sommer 2020, Ulrich Brömmling
• funded by Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2020: Backlist Collection
• This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
• 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.
• In English.
• Description based on print version record.