Queer Defamiliarisation
Writing, Mattering, Making Strange
A new theory of defamiliarisation as a process of queering, and of queering as a process of defamiliarisation
- The first book to examine defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective
- Engages with new materialist feminisms and queer theory
- Demonstrates the importance of a simultaneously creative and critical approach by providing a gendered rewriting of Joyce’s chapter 'Oxen of the Sun' from Ulysses
Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation, or making-strange, from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory.
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Introductions
1. Synvariance
2. Mythorefleshings
3. A Field of Heteronyms & Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation and Wor(l)ding
4. Sensorium
Concluding Comments
Epilogue.
1. Synvariance
2. Mythorefleshings
3. A Field of Heteronyms & Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation and Wor(l)ding
4. Sensorium
Concluding Comments
Epilogue.
Queer Defamiliarisation is a truly radical intervention into the field (one where you could set up camp and happily stay) and an example of stylistic brilliance where the form and structure allow for a dynamic reimagining of the ways defamiliarisation, queerness and matter can relate.
Queer Defamiliarisation is a truly radical intervention into the field (one where you could set up camp and happily stay) and an example of stylistic brilliance where the form and structure allow for a dynamic reimagining of the ways defamiliarisation, queerness and matter can relate.
Endlessly thoughtful, inventive, and smart. Even fittingly, charmingly strange. Palmer grasps how the little, cellular, ant-like word mightily carries worlds on its back. Enter her slipstream of queer estrangements, in the face of oppressive world structures, and find yourself braced and wildly edified. An artful achievement.
