{"product_id":"9780190676551","title":"The Modernist Art of Queer Survival","description":"Whether we speak of queer bodies targeted for harassment, queer sensibilities derided as dangerous, or queer intimacies denied legitimacy, we acknowledge a close companionship between queerness and precariousness. Queerness remains continuously under threat; these threats to survival can be immediate, as in the AIDS crises, or more subtle and entrenched. Many queer lives thus end prematurely and drastically-but not all end in the physical expiration of life. Some terminate gradually and even unconsciously in the countless concessions to normativity demanded by dominant cultures that perceive, through a perverse set of projective identifications, their own survival as imperiled by queerness.  \u003cem\u003eThe Modernist Art of Queer Survival\u003c\/em\u003e explores an archive of modernist archive of modernist literature that conceives survival as a collective enterprise linking lives across boundaries of race, time, class, species, gender, and sexuality. As social Darwinism promoted a selfish, competitive, and combatively individualistic understanding of survival, the five modernists examined in \u003cem\u003eThe Modernist Art of Queer Survival \u003c\/em\u003ecountered by imagining how postures of precarity, vulnerability, humility, and receptivity can breed pleasurably and ecologically sustainable modes of interdependent survival. These modes prove particularly vital and appealing to queer bodies, desires, and intimacies deemed unfit, abnormal, or unproductive by heterosexist ideologies. Authors and texts discussed include Henry James's \"The Beast in the Jungle,\" Oscar Wilde's \u003cem\u003eDe Profundis\u003c\/em\u003e, E.M. Forster's \u003cem\u003eHowards End\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/em\u003e, and Willa Cather's \"Consequences\" and \u003cem\u003eLucy Gayheart\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124461289712,"sku":"9780190676551","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780190676551_p0.jpg?v=1763659758","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780190676551","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}