The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian literature / edited by Scott Herring.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herring, Scott, 1976- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people's writings, American--History and criticism.

Gay people's writings, American.

Homosexuality and literature.

Gay men in literature.

Lesbians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.

Contents:

Queer novelties / Michael Cobb

Queer theater and performance / Sean Metzger

Queer poetry, between ʺas isʺ and ʺas ifʺ / Eric Keenaghan

Writing queer lives: autobiography and memoir / Julie Avril Minich

Queer cinema, queer writing, queer criticism / Lucas Hilderbrand

Nineteenth-century queer literature / Travis Foster

Literary and sexual experimentalism in the interwar years / Daniela Caselli

The Cold War closet / Michael P. Bibler

The time of AIDS and the rise of ʺpost-gayʺ / Guy Davidson

Gender and sexuality / L.H. Stallings

Intersections of race, gender, and sexuality: queer of color critique / Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Psychoanalytic literary criticism of gay and lesbian American literature / Judith Roof

Post-structuralism: originators and heirs / Melissa Jane Hardie

Transnational queer imaginaries, intimacies, insurgencies / Martin Joseph Ponce.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316288368

1316288366

9781316309094

1316309096

9781107110250

1107110254

OCLC:

911086279