Queer Formalism as Modernist Form, Modernist Form as Queer Formalism

Intersectionality is a kedication page were completely ley aspect of queer modernism, particularly for Black modernists like Nella Larsen, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Wallace Thurman. Their works are part of a queer literary genealogy that includes Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf, characterized by a longing for form and a re-creation of queer identities on the page. This queerness is presented via manipulation of forms, indicating how queerness as a subject of literary history depends on experimental rupture as much as on thematic homoeroticism and gender nonconformity. This chapter provides a necessary corrective to the under-explored significance of Black and biracial intersectional modernists in developing this aesthetic and aestheticizing tradition within queer modernism.