The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
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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.
- Reflects the newest areas of queer studies scholarship, including queer of color critique, indigenous studies, disability studies, and transgender studies
- Emphasizes queer literary and cultural studies, with essays on topics such as poetics, narrative, popular culture, performance studies, and digital culture
- Familiarizes readers with the history of queer literary and cultural studies, as well as the most current debates
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'The collection is both an invaluable and authoritative resource for scholars and an excellent teaching tool for use in the classroom.' A. J. Ramirez, Choice
Product details
June 2020Paperback
9781108741897
276 pages
228 × 153 × 14 mm
0.44kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Genealogies
- 1. Genealogies of Queer Theory Kadji Amin
- 2. Queer Writing, Queer Politics: Working Across Difference Keguro Macharia
- Part II. Confluences
- 3. Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicities: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique Chandan Reddy
- 4. Transgender Studies, or How to Do Things With Trans* Cáel Keegan
- 5. Queer Indigenous Studies, or Thirza Cuthand's Indigequeer Film June Scudeler
- 6. Queer Disability Studies Alison Kafer
- 7. Queer Ecologies Nicole Seymour
- Part III. Representation
- 8. Queer Poetics: Deviant swerves, in three Ren (Rachel) Ellis Neyra
- 9. Queer Narrative Anne Mulhall
- 10. Trace a Vanishing: or, Queer Performance Study Nadia Ellis
- 11. Queer and Trans Studies in Pop Culture: Transgender Tripping Points in the Carceral State Erica Rand
- 12. Queer Digital Cultures Kate O'Riordan
- Part IV. Key Words
- 13. Queer Diasporic Crossings and the Persistence of Desire in The Book of Salt Martin Joseph Ponce
- 14. Diaspora, Displacement, and Belonging: The Politics of Family and the Future of Queer Kinship Richard T. Rodríguez
- 15. Queer Critical Regionalism J. Samaine Lockwood.
