'Could not want a lover … more than freedom': Failing in Sarah Waters’s Affinity and Fingersmith
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Using J. Jack Halberstam's theories of queer failure, this essay examines Sarah Waters's neo-Victorian novels Affinity and Fingersmith. The author argues that we must read Waters’s novels as narratives of queer failure, rich with negative potential for scuttling normativity and dismantling schemas of queer progress, while resisting the temptation to insert narratives of progress or positivity.
Source: Excursions Journal
Author: Joshua G Adair
Institution: Murray State University
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3010593826