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Queer Faith
Melissa E. Sanchez
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie
Beschreibung
Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association
Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts
Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of “history and tradition” suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy—from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare—to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberation are themselves attached to nascent racial and economic hierarchies. Because discourses of fidelity and freedom are also discourses on racial and sexual positionality, excavating the complex historical entanglement of faith, race, and eroticism is urgent to contemporary queer debates about normativity, agency, and relationality.
Deliberately unfaithful to disciplinary norms and national boundaries, this book assembles new conceptual frameworks at the juncture of secular and religious thought, political and aesthetic form. It thereby enlarges the contexts, objects, and authorized genealogies of queer scholarship. Retracing a history that did not have to be, Sanchez recovers writing that inscribes radical queer insights at the premodern foundations of conservative and heteronormative culture.
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John Donne, Saint Augustine, reparative reading, queer theory, devotional poetry, promiscuity in literature, Christian theology, Francesco Petrarch, Mary Wroth, marriage in literature, conversion in literature, Edmund Spenser, posthumanism, classical friendship, William Shakespeare, Protestant Reformation, monogamy in literature, Judith Butler, interiority, Philip Sidney, religion and literature, divorce in literature, sexuality in literature, John Milton, Protestantism, John Calvin, forgiveness in literature, sexual violence in literature, Martin Luther, adultery in literature, sonnets, paranoid reading, confession in literature, prayer in literature, Michel Foucault, postsecularism, Renaissance lyric poetry, race and poetry, sonnet sequences, new materialism, Saint Paul, theology in literature, Jacques Lacan, lyric poetry, libertine poetry, marriage law