The Queer Uncanny
New Perspectives on the Gothic
Distributed for University of Wales Press
The Queer Uncanny investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in representing lesbian, gay, and transgender characters in a selection of British, American, and Caribbean fiction published between 1980 and 2007. Paulina Palmer analyzes novels by Christopher Bram, Philip Hensher, Alan Hollingurst, Randall Kenan, Shani Mootoo, Sarah Schulman, Ali Smith, Sarah Waters, and Jeanette Winterson, among others, highlighting the inventive ways these authors recast traditional Gothic motifs from a queer perspective. Topics discussed include secrets and their disclosure, queer spectrality, the homely/unhomely house, the grotesque, lesbian social invisibility, transgender doubles, and the intersection between sexuality and race.
1. Introduction: Queering the Uncanny
2. Secrets and their Disclosure
3. Queer Spectrality
4. Place and Space
5. Monstrous Others
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
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