Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children’s strangeness, even some children’s subliminal “gayness,” in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of children emerge as this book illuminates the child queered by innocence, the child queered by color, the child queered by Freud, the child queered by money, and the grown homosexual metaphorically seen as a child (or as an animal), alongside the gay child. What might the notion of a “gay” child do to conceptions of the child? How might it outline the pain, closets, emotional labors, sexual motives, and sideways movements that attend all children, however we deny it?Engaging and challenging the work of sociologists, legal theorists, and historians, Stockton coins the term “growing sideways” to describe ways of growing that defy the usual sense of growing “up” in a linear trajectory toward full stature, marriage, reproduction, and the relinquishing of childish ways. Growing sideways is a mode of irregular growth involving odd lingerings, wayward paths, and fertile delays. Contending that children’s queerness is rendered and explored best in fictional forms, including literature, film, and television, Stockton offers dazzling readings of works ranging from novels by Henry James, Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Vladimir Nabokov to the movies Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Hanging Garden, Heavenly Creatures, Hoop Dreams, and the 2005 remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The result is a fascinating look at children’s masochism, their interactions with pedophiles and animals, their unfathomable, hazy motives (leading them at times into sex, seduction, delinquency, and murder), their interracial appetites, and their love of consumption and destruction through the alluring economy of candy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-10-20
Mått:155 x 211 x 25 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Series Q
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822343868

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Kathryn Bond Stockton is Professor of English and Director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, BrontË, and Eliot.

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“I consider Kathryn Bond Stockton to be one of the most impressive and important queer critics in the academy today, and The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century only confirms that assessment. It is magnificent: the kind of book that defines the field and is returned to again and again, inspiring all sorts of thought and work for generations to come.”-Michael Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence “I don’t know when I’ve been so captivated by a book and eager to get to the next page. That it is original and that addresses a topic, the queer child, pretty much completely ignored is one mark of its importance. Even more striking though is the ease with which stunning insights are delivered as if they were a matter of course. Many readers will be struck by the centrality of Kathryn Bond Stockton’s book and the graceful way it exposes and breaks the silence surrounding the queer child.”-James R. Kincaid, author of Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting

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Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Growing Sideways, or Why Children Appear to Get Queerer in the Twentieth Century 1Part I. Sideways Relations: "Pedophiles" and Animals 1. The Smart Child is the Masochistic Child: Pedagogy, Pedophilia, and the Pleasures of Harm 612. Why the (Lesbian) Child Requires an Interval of Animal: The Family Dog as a Time Machine 89Part 2. Sideways Motions: Sexual Motives, Criminal Motives 3. What Drives the Sexual Child? The Mysterious Motions of Children's Motives 1194. Feeling Like Killing? Murderous Motives of the Queer Child 155Part 3. Sideways Futures: Color and Money 5. Oedipus Raced, or the Child Queered by Color: Birthing "Your" Parents via Intrusions 183Conclusion: Money Is the Child's Queer Ride: Sexing and Racing around the Future 219Notes 245Bibliography 275Index 287