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Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought, Laura Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic.
Review Quotes: "Westengard takes a common idea--that gothic is queer--and inverts it to show the effects of unacknowledged trauma on marginalized communities. Gothic Queer Culture establishes Westengard as an exciting new voice in critical trauma studies, gothic studies, and queer theory."--Nowell Marshall, author of Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini
-- (2/23/2019 12:00:00 AM)