Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay argues that New Narrative exemplifies queer experimental literature's innovation of interpretative protocols and affective relations that break from those sanctioned within the heteronormative public sphere. In particular, New Narrative gives narrative form to “sexual disorientation,” or the ways that queers and other sexual dissidents suffer violence and social marginalization. As touchstones for this aesthetic politics, the essay looks to Robert Glück's short story “Sanchez and Day” (1982) and Kathy Acker's novel Great Expectations (1982), which compose “affect plots” that reimagine the relations between affect, queerness, and form. Taken together, their approaches to queer relationality offer a method for tracing uptakes of New Narrative's affective forms as they move promiscuously beyond their emergence in the early 1980s.
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