Annie Proulx’s queer wyomingans and the non-realistic

Hello Friends! It’s easy to link author Annie Proulx with quintessential American Realism.  She’s writing about Wyoming for Pete’s sake, and regular, if not downright poor people.  You can’t get much realistic-er than that. Or can you? Proulx’s writing is dense, elegiac, funny, perverse, and strange.  I've discussed the notion of the queer in my … Continue reading Annie Proulx’s queer wyomingans and the non-realistic

Bruno Schulz and the Queer Visitation

Here's a gloriously strange and brilliant writer/graphic artist.  A brief discussion of his writing follows, but you should really experience him for yourself, by click on the link at the end of the post. Reading Polish writer Bruno Schulz, we think immediately of Freud.  The Father of Psychoanalysis’ notions are clearly represented in the short … Continue reading Bruno Schulz and the Queer Visitation