Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979
Per Esben Svelstad, "Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979"
English | ISBN: 3031560299 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 561 KB + 4 MB
English | ISBN: 3031560299 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 561 KB + 4 MB
This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies of a variety of texts, this book demonstrates the merits of bridging the gap between the “de-naturalizing” project of gender and queer theory on the one hand, and, on the other, the ecocritical centering of material, nonhuman environments.