The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies

by Siobhan B. Somerville

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108482042
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/11/2020
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Siobhan B. Somerville is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she chairs the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. She is author of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Duke UP) and co-editor of several special issues, including “Queering the Middle:  Race, Region, and Sexual Diasporas,” co-edited with Martin Manalansan, Chantal Nadeau, and Richard T. Rodríguez for GLQ.  Her research has also appeared in journals such as American Literature, American Quarterly, Criticism, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality.  She is a past recipient of the Passing the Torch Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York; and the Wise-Susman Prize from the American Studies Association.

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.

Editorial Reviews

‘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

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