Abstract
This article explores the under-examined short fiction of Joel Lane, which is largely set in the postindustrial landscapes of the English Midlands and the Black County. In so doing, it links Lane’s employment of the weird, the eerie, and the numinous to processes of mourning and melancholia in the face of the unacceptable and unacknowledgeable – by society at large – losses of the Anthropocene, of industrial decline, and of the HIV AIDS crisis. It argues that Lane’s queering of mourning and melancholia offers modes of resistance to the recuperation of radical losses and the transformation of storied place into homogenous space.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 339-353 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Midland History |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Dec 2024 |
Bibliographical note
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.Keywords
- Joel Lane
- The weird and the eerie
- mourning and melancholy
- post-industrial
- queer
- the Anthropocene
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- History
