Genrequeer: gender, genre, and disability in contemporary autobiographical lyric memoirs

• Main Author: Chong, Catherine May Deen
• Other Authors: Graham John Matthews
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Medical humanities; English literature; Poetry; Queer theory; Crip theory; Disability studies; Contemporary poetics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179690
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis brings together methodologies from disability, crip, and queer theory to propose a case for the genrequeer as a heretical lineage of contemporary writing about illness. Tracing the development of the genrequeer in contemporary and experimental works of narrative, this thesis traverses a...