RT Journal Article
T1 Queer Literary Assemblages: Justin Torres's Blackouts (2023).
A1 Hueso-Vasallo, Manuel
K1 Teoría queer
K1 Torres, Justin (1980-) - Crítica e interpretación
AB This essay aims to explore the connection between assemblage theory and queer studies, arguing that this connection could be extremely productive as a critical tool through which to explore literary texts dealing with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minorities (hi)stories. Although assemblage theory was originally articulated by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in Milles Plateaux, there has recently been, as the research project into which this essay is integrated demonstrates, a noticeable spike of interest regarding assembled thinking. This interest, however, seems to have overlooked the critical potential that combining assemblage theory and queer studies could offer. In this sense, this essay details the affinities shared between both fields of critical enquiry and, through the lenses of Bill Brown’s “Re-Assemblage (Theory, Practice, Mode),” analyses Justin Torres’s novel Blackouts, in order to provide a working example of how the combination of these affinities could lead to new understandings of queer literary modes. I shall argue that Torres’s novel is an important text from which to rethink the ways in which we analyze queer literature precisely due to its inclusion of assembled materials within its pages.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2024
FD 2024-12-29
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38608
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38608
LA eng
NO Hueso-Vasallo, M. (2024). Queer Literary Assemblages: Justin Torres’s Blackouts (2023). Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2439325
NO Proyecto de Investigación "Reorientando la Teoría del Ensamblaje en la Literatura y Cultura Anglófona", financiado por el Ministerio Español de Ciencia e Innovación
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026