Minor American: New Narrative, the Avant-Garde, Queer Lives, and Necropolitics (Eileen Myles, Magdalena Zurawski, and CA Conrad)
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https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.17.04Keywords:
New Narrative, the avant-garde, queer, necropoliticsAbstract
This article discusses the American avant-garde movement called New Narrative, which originated in the 1970s, as well as the poetic strategies that accompanied its socio-political involvement in the cause of emancipation of sexual minority groups. The author discusses the output of three representatives of this movement: Eileen Myles, Magdalena Zurawski, and CA Conrad, whose work and artistic activity have focused on the problems of civil rights and the freedoms, or lack thereof, of LGBTQ+ persons in the United States. The author undertakes an analysis of the three artists’ output within the context of the philosophical reflections of Joseph-Achille Mbembe on the necropolitics, a body of ideas currently investigated in the US in relation to queer identity and queer practices.
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