Queer Waiting

<p><b>The act and experience of waiting – and refusing to wait – is a central feature in queer people’s lives: from waiting to come out, to waiting for political and social recognition, to refusing to wait while hard-won legal rights are taken away today.</b><br><br>In this open access book, von Seth traces and explores entanglements of queerness and waiting in fictional and autobiographical queer-themed narratives, to propose the new theoretical concept of “queer waiting”.<br><br> Drawing on a diverse selection of narratives, genres, and cultural contexts, including early queer texts about gay men, texts about trans experiences and waiting for death during the AIDS epidemic, films such as <i>Brokeback Mountain</i> and the videogame <i>The Last of Us Part II</i>, Oscar von Seth argues that although waiting is a universal human activity and an unavoidable aspect of life, it can be understood as a distinct and specifically queer cultural phenomenon.<br><br> <i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.</i></p>