{"product_id":"same-old-queer-theory-literature-and-the-politics-of-sameness-9781526163813","title":"Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSame old\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to ‘difference’, queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to ‘sameness’ only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus – uselessness, reproduction, normativity and reductionism – and reveals their unexpected formal and thematic importance to a range of queer literary genres from across the long twentieth century: \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e aestheticism, feminist speculative fiction, lesbian middlebrow writing, and the ‘stud file’ or record of serial sex. Demonstrating how queer cultural objects often stand at odds with the frameworks that have been meant to help interpret and comprehend them, \u003ci\u003eSame old\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates the genealogy of the aversion to sameness that has kept those frameworks in place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Same Old makes a significant contribution  to the recent appraisals of critique-as-method that have encouraged scholars to imagine  how a field might organize itself in terms other than an Oedipal drama...   Same Old nonetheless opens up some tantalizing questions for such a project, as well as for broader  considerations of sameness itself.'\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Literary History Review\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Same old\u003cbr\u003e1. Useless\u003cbr\u003e2. Reproductive\u003cbr\u003e3. Normative\u003cbr\u003e4. Reductive\u003cbr\u003eCoda: Same again\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041029357911,"sku":"9781526163813","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526163813.jpg?v=1750948665","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/same-old-queer-theory-literature-and-the-politics-of-sameness-9781526163813","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}