Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions
Michael D. Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms of positive affect that queer theory has jettisoned, Snediker insists that optimism must itself be taken beyond conventional tropes of hope and futurity and reimagined as necessary for critical engagement.
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Michael D. Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms of positive affect that queer theory has jettisoned, Snediker insists that optimism must itself be taken beyond conventional tropes of hope and futurity and reimagined as necessary for critical engagement.
Acknowledgments ixQueer Optimism: An Introduction 11 Hart Crane's Smile: Affirming Certain Things 432 Emily Dickinson's Queer Pain: "One Claw Opon the Air" 793 Jack Spicer's Billy the Kid: Beyond the Singular Personal 1264 Elizabeth Bishop's Crane, and the Good-Enough Poem 168Epilogue: Affirmez la Survie 213Notes 219Index 265
