Queer Allusion: Poetic Connections from Wilde to Ginsberg by Florian Gargaillo

Queer Allusion: Poetic Connections from Wilde to Ginsberg

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Queer Allusion: Poetic Connections from Wilde to Ginsberg

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Queer Allusion: Poetic Connections from Wilde to Ginsberg

by Florian Gargaillo

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Queer Allusion uncovers the crucial but underexamined role played by literary allusion in shaping queer poetry on both sides of the Atlantic, from the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895 to the Stonewall Riots of 1969. In this wide-ranging, erudite study of influence and personal expression, Florian Gargaillo identifies three major functions of allusion for LGBTQ poets. First, allusion enabled writers to process their experiences through literary antecedents, and thus shape their identities in writing. Second, allusion provided a means to establish connections with other authors at a time when LGBTQ communities were often isolated and clandestine. Finally, establishing links across multiple works helped build a queer literary canon running parallel to the traditional contours of English-language verse.

Gargaillo shows that allusion's particular appeal for queer poets lay in its blend of secrecy and openness. LGBTQ poets employed allusion to understand themselves, connect with others, and establish an alternative, underground poetic tradition. Queer Allusion thus provides an innovative framework for studying LGBTQ poetry, tracing lineages from figures like Wilde to A. E. Housman and Countee Cullen, who are rarely considered together due to differences in style, period, or movement. Through incisive close readings and contextual analysis, this book offers a new map of LGBTQ literary history and a new way to view the relationship between queer poets and the poetic past.
Book Details
Publisher:
LSU Press
ISBN:
9780807184738
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
226
Authors:
Florian Gargaillo
Published Date:
2025-12-02
Language:
English
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About Florian Gargaillo

Florian Gargaillo teaches at Austin Peay State University and writes about twentieth-century poetry rather than writing it. Educated in France and the United States, he took degrees at the Université de Bourgogne before an MA and, in 2018, a PhD at Boston University. Louisiana State University Press published Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public Speech in 2023, and Queer Allusion: Poetic Connections from Wilde to Ginsberg followed. He serves as president of the Wallace Stevens Society, and reviews contemporary poetry for Chicago Review, PN Review and Rain Taxi. His essay on Gwendolyn Brooks's elegies appeared in MELUS, and his work on Langston Hughes and the blues in Modernism/modernity.

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