Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation, or making-strange, from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory. She explores how we might radically restructure this gesture of making-strange to create a dialogue with the affirmations of deviant, errant, alternative and multiple modes of being which have become synonymous with queer theory. Queer theory affirms multiple dimensions of sexuality and gender, while defamiliarisation celebrates shifts in perception. Palmer explores these processes from a number of literary and philosophical angles, concluding with a creative epilogue written in the voices of women throughout history.

About the Author
Helen Palmer, Senior Scientist at the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics, Technical University Vienna.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474434157
Author Helen Palmer
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press