An Introduction To Queer Literary Studies

Author : Will Stockton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000647870
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies written by Will Stockton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to how queer scholars have read some of the most well-known works in the English language. Organized thematically, this book explores queer theoretical treatments of sexual identity, gender and sexual norms and normativity, negativity and utopianism, economics and neoliberalism, and AIDS activism and disability. Each chapter expounds upon foundational works in queer theory by scholars including Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Lee Edelman. Each chapter also offers readings of primary texts –ranging from the highly canonical, like John Milton’s Paradise Lost, to more contemporary works of popular fiction, like Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot. Along the way, An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly demonstrates how queer reading methods work alongside other methods like feminism, historicism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. By modelling queer readings, this book invites literature students to develop queer readings of their own. It also suggests that reading queerly is not simply a matter of reading work written by queer people. Queer reading attunes us to the queerness of even the most straightforward text.

Author : Annamarie Jagose
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814742343
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Theory written by Annamarie Jagose and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.

Author : Nikki Sullivan
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814798403
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory written by Nikki Sullivan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins by putting gay & lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged.

Author : Riki Wilchins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459608437
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Theory, Gender Theory written by Riki Wilchins and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the work of postmodern sex and gender theorists, nationally known gender activist Riki Wilchins clearly explains the key ideas that have shaped contemporary sex and gender studies. Using straightforward prose and concrete examples from LGBT politics -- as well as her own life -- Wilchins makes thinkers like Derrida, Foucault, and Judith Butler easily accessible to students, activists, and others who are interested in some of the most compelling and divisive issues of the last 100 years. Additionally, Wilchins reports on the ways queer youths today are using the tools of queer theory and gender theory to reshape their world. This is that rare, invaluable book that connects postmodern theory to political passion, personal experience, and the patterns of everyday life."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Qwo-Li Driskill
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816529070
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Indigenous Studies written by Qwo-Li Driskill and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒThis book is an imagining.Ó So begins this collection examining critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies. This book is not so much a manifesto as it is a dialogueÑa Òwriting in conversationÓÑamong a luminous group of scholar-activists revisiting the history of gay and lesbian studies in Indigenous communities while forging a path for Indigenouscentered theories and methodologies. The bold opening to Queer Indigenous Studies invites new dialogues in Native American and Indigenous studies about the directions and implications of queer Indigenous studies. The collection notably engages Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements as alliances that also call for allies beyond their bounds, which the co-editors and contributors model by crossing their varied identities, including Native, trans, straight, non-Native, feminist, Two-Spirit, mixed blood, and queer, to name just a few. Rooted in the Indigenous Americas and the Pacific, and drawing on disciplines ranging from literature to anthropology, contributors to Queer Indigenous Studies call Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements and allies to center an analysis that critiques the relationship between colonialism and heteropatriarchy. By answering critical turns in Indigenous scholarship that center Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies, contributors join in reshaping Native studies, queer studies, transgender studies, and Indigenous feminisms. Based on the reality that queer Indigenous people Òexperience multilayered oppression that profoundly impacts our safety, health, and survival,Ó this book is at once an imagining and an invitation to the reader to join in the discussion of decolonizing queer Indigenous research and theory and, by doing so, to partake in allied resistance working toward positive change.

Author : Donald E. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135719446
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Queer Studies Reader written by Donald E. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by two of the leading scholars in the field and presents: individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, José Esteban Muñoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.

Author : Bruce Henderson
Publisher : Harrington Park Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781939594334
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Studies written by Bruce Henderson and published by Harrington Park Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Studies is designed as an advanced undergraduate textbook in queer studies for this rapidly growing field. It is also appropriate as a required or recommended graduate textbook. The author uses the overarching concept of queering as a way of looking at the lives of queer people across a range of disciplines.

Author : Siobhan B. Somerville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108594565
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies written by Siobhan B. Somerville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being organized around a set of literary texts defined by a particular theme, literary movement, or demographic, this volume foregrounds a queer critical approach that moves across a wide array of literary traditions, genres, historical periods, national contexts, and media. This book traces the intellectual and political emergence of queer studies, addresses relevant critical debates in the field, provides an overview of queer approaches to genres, and explains how queer approaches have transformed understandings of key concepts in multiple fields.

Author : Martin Duberman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814718833
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Representations written by Martin Duberman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Representations celebrates the eclectic, diverse nature of gay and lesbian culture and its production. The volume begins by asking how we can interpret an image--is the image homosexual and if so, how can we understand it? Closely connected to its interpretation is how we visualize homosexuality, or, in Allen Ellenzweig's term, how we picture the homoerotic, the organizing principle of a section devoted to American cinema and performance in general. The crucial role of biography and autobiography is the central preoccupation of the next section, with essays on Radclyffe Hall, Langston Hughes, and Louisa May Alcott. Featuring many of the most respected figures in queer studies and contemporary queer literature, among them Dorothy Allison, Edmund White, Barbara Smith, Essex Hemphill, Michael Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel R. Delany, Dale Peck, Jewelle Gomez, Joan Nestle, a final section explores the creation of queer literature, birthpangs, growing pains, and achievements. By emphasizing the interconnectedness of gay and lesbian lives and the literature which has been instrumental in defining, reconstructing, and representing these lives, this anthology serves as a diverse introduction to queer culture and literature.

Author : Tyler Bradway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498035
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Queer Studies written by Tyler Bradway and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Queer Studies centers the literature and critical practices that instigated queer studies and charts trajectories for its further evolution.