Whatever Happened To Queer Happiness? by Kevin Brazil Paperback Book

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Exploring the lives of artists and writers from the past, current discourse around queerness and his own experiences, Kevin Brazil argues that art and literature needs to move away from celebrating the pain of queerness and embracing all the positive, ecstatic, collective joy that queer culture produces.

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In this highly accessible, entertaining and provocative work of non-fiction Kevin Brazil combines essay and memoir to ask one of the most pertinent questions of our current age, 'whatever happened to queer happiness?'Exploring the lives of artists and writers from the past, current discourse around queerness and his own experiences, Brazil argues that art and literature needs to move away from celebrating the pain of queerness and embracing all the positive, ecstatic, collective joy that queer culture produces.Brazil's enlivening ideas around queerness combat the isolation of individuality and shame, instead championing collectivity, commonality, and visions of shared pleasure; offering both critique and a way of remaking the world.A timely, eminently readable and fascinating book for all readers of creative non-fiction, Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness? is a work of literature that will reverberate for years to come.

Author Biography

Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic who lives in London. He grew up in County Wexford, Ireland.His writing has appeared in Granta, The White Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Art Review, Studio International, and elsewhere.

Details ISBN1910312959 Author Kevin Brazil Pages 266 Publisher Influx Press Year 2022 ISBN-10 1910312959 ISBN-13 9781910312957 Publication Date 2022-09-08 UK Release Date 2022-09-08 Format Paperback Imprint Influx Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-09-08 NZ Release Date 2022-09-08 DEWEY 616.8900866 Audience General We've got this

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