The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-44528-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 914 g

Reihe: Routledge Literature Companions

Bringing together twenty-seven established and emerging scholars, The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies discusses the historical development, current state, future directions, and political stakes of queer literary studies as a field of research and pedagogy.

This innovative collection offers new frameworks for studying and teaching literature, art, film, music, theory, and philosophy from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. The contributors consider the structural implication of gender and sexuality with race, class, gender, ability, colonialism, capital, empire, and relationships between human and non-human life and matter.

The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies is a vital resource for scholars, students, and teachers working across a range of historical periods, critical methods, and objects of study. It offers a multitude of approaches to queer literary studies, revealing the field to be as vital, and as contested, as ever.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanchez, Melissa E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Why Queer Literary Studies (Still) Matter: The Politics of Reading from the Cold War to the War on Woke

Part I. Affect and Sensation

1. Nothing but Color: Reading for Surface in a Colorblind Era

2. Building a World: Sensation’s Queer Intimacies

3. Unfeelings That Matter: On Unfeeling as Queer Literary Heuristic

Part II. Genealogies of Queer Studies

4. Between Us: A (Brief) Poetics of Queer Historiography

5. Queer Arrangements

Part III. The Literariness of Queer Studies

6. “Scrolls of Silver Snowy Sentences”: Fragments from an Intellectual Autobiography

7. Sexology Otherwise, or the Literary Style of Reasoning

8. Bollywood Screen Queens: On Reading Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla’s Ode to Lata

Part IV. Race, Materiality, Environmental Studies

9. “Water has a Perfect Memory”: Kinship on Soft Ground in The Yellow House

10. Queer Materiality and Decay

Part V. The Politics of Queer Reading

11. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora

12. Thoughts on Queer Adoption; or, All Queers Are Artists* (*and Other Queer Mythologies)

13. Reading for Political Form

Part VI. Promiscuous Selfhoods

14. Halos: Re-Sacralizing Queer Attachments

15. The Shape of U, Or, Writing What I am Not

Part VII. Queer Maternities

16. Marie Darrieusecq’s Queer (Maternal) Worldings

17. Queer Reading Protocols and the Question of Reproduction

Part VIII. Queer Pasts

18. Is There a History of Queer Poetry?

19. “Devils Dance with Angels”: John Rechy’s Male Hustler Novel Comes to Mardi Gras

20. Twerking with Milton by Quare Allusions in Lil Nas X’s “Montero”

Part XI. Relationality

21. Ethnocuties: Notes on Queer Friendship

22. Contagious Thought: Quarantine and Communion in Times of Plague

Part X. Trans Studies, Queer Studies, and Racialized Gender

23. Not the Same, But Almost, But Not—But Almost: Reflections on Black Trans Feminism, Black/Trans/Feminism, and Queer Theory

24. “As a Rond of Flesche Yschore”: The King of Tars, Race-Thinking, and Trans Childhood c. 1330

Part XI. The Value of Critique

25. Foucault’s Queer Critique

26. The Queer Overanalyzer

Guide to Online Appendix: Queer Studies: What Goes on the Syllabus?

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa E. Sanchez is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her most recent books are Shakespeare and Queer Theory (2019) and Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition (2019).