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Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination

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Reveals a tradition of queer environmentalism in contemporary literature and film from the Americas. 

Artist / Author Nicole Seymour
Publisher University of Illinois Press
ISBN 9780252079160
Reference P3762
Date 2013
Type Publication

Keywords

activism Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain classism criticism ecocriticism environment ethics fiction film gender homophobia Leslie Feinberg LGBT natural nature nonhuman normative politics queer racism sexism sexuality Stone Butch Blues theory Todd Haynes xenophobia

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