Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identities Across Time and Cultures

✍ Scribed by Jarrod Hayes, Margaret R. Higonnet, William J. Spurlin (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 232
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinary of both. The book focuses not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating our assumptions and categories of analysis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Comparing Queerly, Queering Comparison....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Queer from the Very Beginning....Pages 23-43
Figural Historiography....Pages 45-67
Mapping Sapphic Modernity....Pages 69-89
“Fair is not Fair”....Pages 91-112
Time’s Corpus....Pages 113-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Double Trouble....Pages 131-151
Universal Particularities....Pages 153-169
“Words Create Worlds”....Pages 171-192
Genet among the Palestinians....Pages 193-213
Afterword....Pages 215-223
Back Matter....Pages 225-234

✦ Subjects

Gender Studies;Literature, general;Literary Theory

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