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- Title
Queer Connections in Katherine Mansfield's "The Singing Lesson" and "Bliss".
- Authors
Rosenblum, Lauren M.
- Abstract
In her two short stories "The Singing Lesson" (1921) and "Bliss" (1918), Katherine Mansfield uses the telegram and the telephone as plot devices that potentially enable queer connections but ultimately further fortify heteronormativity. However, while Mansfield's characters maintain their straight relationships, their potential queer affect emerges both because of and despite the imperial networks that align them with heteronormativity. Reading Mansfield through Sara Ahmed's concept of queer orientations presented in Queer Phenomenology offers a discursive framework that extends the possibility of queer, and gratifying, connections even as it shows the straightening power of imperial communications networks in the early twentieth century.
- Subjects
MANSFIELD, Katherine, 1888-1923; LGBTQ+ people; SINGING Lesson, The (Short story); AHMED, Sara, 1969-; BLISS (Short story)
- Publication
Space Between: Literature & Culture, 1914-1945, 2023, Vol 19, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1551-9309
- Publication type
Article