Quare Modernism? Contesting exclusions in the construction of queerness in modernist Irish women's fiction

这个项目将探索一些最杰出的爱尔兰现代主义女作家的小说的奇怪和“方”阅读：伊丽莎白·鲍恩，凯特·奥布莱恩和莫莉·基恩。通过交叉的女权主义理论和酷儿的色彩批判，它将试图定义酷儿在爱尔兰背景下作为一个激进的政治项目有多有用。在承认酷儿在独立后的爱尔兰文化中具有解放潜力的同时，理解由中上层阶级、健全的爱尔兰白人作家主导的酷儿文化作品经典的局限性也至关重要。因此，这个项目将主要关注阶级、种族和能力的排除，这些是这些先锋作家小说中酷儿想象的组成部分。这项研究的最终目的是在瓦伦蒂、吉夫尼和洛克等爱尔兰研究学者的努力基础上，描绘出一种新的“方形理论”。这一理论在分析相互关联的压迫系统时将是严谨的，密切关注种族主义和阶级主义在塑造结构和身份方面的构成效应。这将是一种非殖民化和交叉的方法论，它将寻求身份、社区和时间性的替代模式。受Muñoz等有色人种酷儿学者的启发，我将问，二十世纪爱尔兰的现代性经历是如何与酷儿，或广场，暂时和未来的经历联系起来的。

This project will explore queer and "quare" readings of novels by some of the most prominent Irish modernist womenwriters: Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien and Molly Keane. Informed by intersectional feminist theory and queer of colourcritique, it will seek to define how far queerness is useful as a radical political project in the Irish context. Whileacknowledging the liberatory potential of queerness in the culture of post-independence Ireland, it is also vital tounderstand the limitations of a canon of queer cultural production dominated by middle- to upper-class, able-bodied,white Irish writers. Thus, this project will focus on the exclusions - of class, race and ability, primarily - that areconstitutive of the queer imaginary in the novels of these pioneering writers. The eventual aim of this research is thedelineation of a new "quare theory", following on from the efforts of Irish studies scholars such as Valente, Giffney andO'Rourke. This theory will be rigorous in its analysis of interlocking systems of oppression, paying close attention to theconstitutive effects of racism and classism in the shaping of structures and identities. It will be a decolonial andintersectional methodology that will seek out alternative models of identity, community and temporality. Inspired by queerscholars of colour such as Muñoz, I will ask how the Irish experience of modernity in the twentieth century relates to thequeer, or quare, experience of temporality and futurity.