The Bloomsbury Handbook of Poetry, Gender, and Sexuality

Seeking a range of perspectives from different geographical, linguistic, and (trans)national contexts, this handbook places queer and feminist poetry and poetics in dialogue with a range of critical frameworks.

Offering a comprehensive survey of poetry and poetics at the intersection of gender and sexuality, this handbook places queer and feminist poetry and poetics in dialogue with a range of critical frameworks emerging from critical disability and critical race studies, diaspora studies, decolonial studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and translation studies.

Seeking a range of perspectives from different geographical, linguistic, and (trans)national contexts, the book is organised in three interconnected clusters, each of which foregrounds a particular aspect of poetic practice as it relates to genders and sexualities: Body Poetics; Queer Poetics of Diaspora and the Contact Zone; and Histories, Media and Material Culture.

Mapping the ways in which poetics shapes theoretical dialogues as well as the way poetics is, in turn, shaped by these dialogues, this book builds on earlier scholarship on feminist and queer poetics and on recent work on queer dimensions of canonical poetics. It also pushes the field forward by thinking about gender and sexuality through a wide range of emerging theoretical and political contexts, and by interrogating poetic genealogies and proposing new forms of engagement at the nexus of poetics, gender, and sexuality.