Unmaking Love draws on psychoanalysis and gender and sexuality studies to read love's role in contemporary literature and its relation to queer negativity. 1 T14:03:38-05:00 Two epitaphs expressing the power of. The title is confusing and up for multiple interpretations I took it to mean that our mind does not comprehend an end and therefore keeps our fear of death at bay. In queer love, social forms are deformed, affective bonds do not bind, and social structures threaten to come undone. The piece I want to submit is The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst. This has important consequences in a variety of domains. It comes to embody thwarted expectations, disarticulated organization, and unnerving multiplicity. I argue that one is impossible (i.e., no one could love that way) and the other is probably irrational. In their work, "queer love" becomes more than shorthand for sexual identity. Rather than providing union, connection, and completion, love in contemporary fiction destroys the possibility of unity, harbors negativity, and foregrounds difference.Ĭomparing contemporary and modernist depictions of love to delineate critical continuities and innovations, Unmaking Love locates queerness in the novelistic strategies of Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Hanif Kureshi, Alan Hollinghurst, and Hari Kunzru. The contemporary novel does more than revise our conception of love-it explodes it, queers it, and makes it unrecognizable.
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