Queering

Marion May Campbell, Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Francesca Rendle-Short, Deborah Wardle, Ames Hawkins, Quinn Eades, Stayci Taylor, Peta Murray, Natalie Harkin, Antonia Pont, Anonymous

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Abstract

To queer: 2subvert 2disrupt 2defy but is it enough to show up in my queerness? To throw my words down and split my infinitives?

For me, striving as a writer to queer form, there's been huge inspiration from Ross Chambers's seductive exploration of literary digression, Loiterature (1999); from Jean Genet's fabulous autofictional essays, especially Fragments of the Artwork (2003 [1982]); from Roland Barthes's beautiful autobiographically inflected A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (2002 [1978]); from the Belgian-born, Paris-based philosopher Luce Irigaray's This Sex Which Is Not One (1979), and especially her 'When Our Lips Together Speak'. I remain in awe of French writer Monique Wittig's radical lesbian poetic experimentation across her work, especially The Lesbian Body (1986 [1973]) and The Opoponax (1976). In Australia, the effect of the stunning intervention of Kathleen Mary Fallon in Working Hot (1989) is immeasurable.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA to Z of Creative Writing Methods
EditorsDeborah Wardle, Julienne Van Loon, Stayci Taylor, Francesca Rendle-Short, Peta Murray, David Carlin
Place of PublicationLondon, UK
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pages141-143
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781350184220, 9781350184237
ISBN (Print)9781350184206, 9781350184213
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Keywords

  • Creative writing

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