The Cambridge history of queer American literature / edited by Benjamin Kahan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kahan, Benjamin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities' writings, American--History and criticism.

Sexual minorities' writings, American.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Sexual minorities in literature.

Queer theory--United States--History.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 898 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies and sexuality studies became deeply entwined and what they can teach each other. It examines how American literature produces and is in turn woven out of sexualities, gender pluralities, trans-ness, erotic subjectivities, and alternative ways of inhabiting bodily morphology. In so doing, the volume aims to do nothing less than revise the ways in which we understand the whole of American literature. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates.

Contents:

Transatlantic Origin Stories : The Transmasculinity Narrative in the Anglophone Atlantic eighteenth century / Sal Nicolazzo

Queering the founding; or, the revolution of sex / Don James McLaughlin

Whither the queer history of slavery? / Patrice D. Douglass

Queering immigration and the social body, 1875-1924 / Madoka Kishi

The queerness of WWII : problems and possibilities / Guy Davidson

Queer bonds of Cold War sexuality / GerShun Avilez

"The dead never die" : pre-exposure prophylaxis, queer temporalities, and the literature of AIDS / Tim Dean

Fiction in the post-Lawrence v. Texas era, or inventing heteronormative queerness / Kate McCullough

Trans-ing transcendentalism / Dorri Beam

Sentimental literature and the erotics of identification / Kathryn R. Kent

Queer modernism and misfit identity / Octavio R. González

Imperialism and the queer harlem renaissance / Fiona I. B. Ngô

The mystical sexuality of the beats and the berkeley renaissance / Julia Bloch and Ignacio Infante

The New York School's queer happiness / Brian Glavey

Chicana and Latina lesbian feminists and the radical making of anthological archives of willfulness / T. Jackie Cuevas

Queer literature after queer theory / Michael D. Snediker

Queer historical poetics and queer formalism : American poetry before 1850 / James Mulholland

Queer mythology in American poetry, 1855-1913 / Vivian R. Pollak

Funny emotions : queer lyric from the new verse to the new American poets / Chad Bennett

Queer American poetry now / Stephanie Burt

Queer American drama : plays, replays, yet-to-be-plays / Penny Farfan

The gay genre : musical theatre from Showboat to A strange loop / James F. Wilson

The oneiric golden age of gay and lesbian pulp fiction / Stephanie Foote

Queering desire in American science fiction / Anna Kurowicka

Queering comics histories / andré carrington

LGBT vestsellers / Diarmuid Hester and Jack Parlett

History touches us everywhere : American queer and trans memoir in the long twentieth century / Emma Heaney

Whiteness and trans genre, whiteness as trans genre / Jules Gill-Peterson

Queer types for early Asian American literature / Andrew Way Leong

The queerness of Blackness / Amber Jamilla Musser

Two-spirit writers and the sovereign erotic in queer native American literature / Alicia Carroll

The insubordination of Latina literature / Alicia Arrizón

Queer Southern literature and the dirty South / Michael P. Bibler and Sharon P. Holland

Queer DiaspoRican circuits / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

"Where sadness makes sense" : the queer poetics of the Midwest Terrain / Richard T. Rodríguez

Queer New England regionalism / J. Samaine Lockwood

Queer beginnings at the end of the frontier : Asia and the Pacific in the making of a modern gay American identity / Amy Sueyoshi

Queer American literature in the world / Marta Figlerowicz

Repression, sublimation, and latency from Charles Brockden Brown to James Purdy / Melissa Hardie

Gender variance before trans : a literary history / Xine Yao

Female friendship : romantic friends and Boston marriages / Lillian Faderman

The medical model and early gay and lesbian writing / Simon Stern

"Flung out of space" : class and sexuality in American literary history / Aaron S. Lecklider

Quantifying sex / Joan Lubin

The pleasures of reading camp / Teagan Bradway

The queerness of religion / Tracy Fessenden

Tracing queer crip poetics in time / Ellen Samuels

Queer print culture : the market and circulation of gay and lesbian literature / Jaime Harker.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 May 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108911863

1108911862

9781108911337

1108911331

9781108918725

1108918727