Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Ident
β Jarrod Hayes, Margaret R. Higonnet, William J. Spurlin (eds.)
π Library
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2010
π Palgrave Macmillan US
π English
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Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identities across Time and Cultures
β Scribed by Jarrod Hayes, Margaret R. Higonnet, William J. Spurlin
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These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature,Β strengtheningΒ the interdisciplinarity of both.Β By focusing not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating our assumptions and categories of analysis, Comparatively Queer powerfully transforms the paradigms of comparison.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Comparing Queerly, Queering Comparison: Theorizing Identities between Cultures, Histories, and Disciplines......Page 12
I: Crossing Time......Page 32
1 Queer from the Very Beginning: (En)gendering the Vernacular in Medieval France......Page 34
2 Figural Historiography: Dogs, Humans, and Cynanthropic Becomings......Page 56
3 Mapping Sapphic Modernity......Page 80
4 "Fair Is Not Fair": Queer Possibility and Fairground Performers in Western Europe and the United States, 1870β1935......Page 102
5 Time's Corpus: On Sexuality, Historiography, and the Indian Penal Code......Page 124
II: Crossing Cultures......Page 140
6 Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong......Page 142
7 Universal Particularities: Conceptions of Sexuality, Nationality, and Culture in France and the United States......Page 164
8 "Words Create Worlds": Rethinking Genre in the Animal Fables of Suniti Namjoshi and Vikram Seth......Page 182
9 Genet among the Palestinians: Sex, Betrayal, and the Incomparable Real......Page 204
Afterword: Comparisons Worth Making......Page 226
List of Contributors......Page 236
Index......Page 240
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