"This companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies, a wideranging and porous area of study that has been especially generative for the larger interdisciplinary field of queer studies over the last three decades. The essaysgathered here represent work in queer literary and cultural studies in the vital present, generated with an impulse to suggest new and emerging areas of inquiry, including trans studies as it is entangled with and adjacent to queer studies. All of the essays are original, written expressly for this publication by both established and newer voices in the field. Rather than being organized around a set of literary texts defined by a particular theme, literary movement, or demographic, this companion foregrounds a queer critical approach that moves across a wide array of literary traditions, genres, historical periods, national contexts, and media including print, tv/film/video, digital media, and performance. At this point in the history of the field, no single book could hope to provide an exhaustive account of the capacious project that is queer literary and cultural studies"--
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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
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This Companion provides a guide to queer literary and cultural studies, introducing critical debates in the field and an overview of queer approaches to various genres.
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.
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.
