Episode 2: Queer ghosts, hopeful presences 5r644n

Waluigi boards, Virginia's Wolf and fields of corn...The erasure of queer lives in dominant written history works to streamline the potentiality of the present moment, in turn, straightening the possible futures we might imagine. And so, in queering linear temporality, we explore how works of fiction can enable queer ghosts - those erased histories - to broaden the imaginative possibilities of the present-futurity. In this episode we head back to Virginia Woolf's London in the 1920s and perambulate Mark Hyatt's soho in the 60s in search of queer ghosts, reading as a way to commune with those who have lived, loved and walked ;) outside of normativity. References: Ahmed S. (2006). Queer phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others. Duke University Press. Anderson B. (2009). Affective atmospheres. Emotion, Space and Society, 2(2), 77–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2009.08.005 Gordon, A. (1997) Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the sociological imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.  Houlbrook, M. (2006) Queer London: Perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  Hyatt, M. (2023) Love, Leda. London: Peninsula Press.  Ingold, T. (2007, 2016) Lines. Abingdon: Routledge Classics Ingold, T. (2015) The Life of Lines. Abingdon: Routledge Jones, A. (2013) A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Munt, S (1995) 'The Lesbian Flaneur' in Mapping Desire. London: Routledge Muñoz, J. E. (2009) Cruising Utopia: the then and there of queer futurity. New York: NYU Press. Parlett, J. (2022) The poetics of cruising: queer visual culture from Whitman to Grindr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.  Turner, M. (2003) Backward Glances: Cruising the queer streets of New York and London. London: Reaktion Books. Woolf, V. (1925) Mrs Dalloway. London: Bloomsbury.  Subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive unfiltered book-club style episodes about our current reads and thoughts... patreon.com/TheHopefulReader Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 2k4p1g