Traditional approaches to "queer ecology" assume that queerness can be leveraged better to achieve the aims of environmentalism. My project destabilizes this relationship, asking what happens to nature if we honor the anti-essentialist capacities of queer theory. Combining analyses of homonationalism, greenwashing, and the evolution of genre through colonial literay networks, I explore the imbrications of sexuality, ecology, and form in the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, I am interested in the works of South African novelist K. Sello Duiker (13 Cents, The Quiet Violence of Dreams), Iraqi/German/Palestinian/Lebanese novelist Saleem Haddad (Guapa), And Trinidadian/Canadian novelist Shani Mootoo (Cereus Blooms at Night), as well as the photography of Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi, and Edward Burtynsky.
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Poetry forthcoming in Fennel Rising
