Category: Literary Criticism

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The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature And Irresolution by Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson | The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature And Irresolution | The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women’s literature that has heretofore be

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The Cambridge Companion To Lesbian Literature by Jodie Medd

Jodie Medd | The Cambridge Companion To Lesbian Literature | The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval p

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The Cambridge Companion To Queer Studies by Siobhan B. Somerville

Siobhan B. Somerville | The Cambridge Companion To Queer Studies | This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender

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Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Judith Butler | Gender Trouble | One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing

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Are the Kids All Right by B. J. Epstein

B. J. Epstein | Are the Kids All Right | Epstein explores why sex, sexuality and gender non-conformity is something that many writers and publishers of children’s and young adult lit appear t

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Gender Bending Detective Fiction by Heather Duerre Humann

Heather Duerre Humann | Gender Bending Detective Fiction | ‘Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted. Reflecting these changing attitudes, storylines involving cross-dressing an

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Lgbtq Literature of the United States by Emmanuel S. Nelson

Emmanuel S. Nelson | Encyclopedia of Contemporary Lgbtq Literature of the United States | Comprehensive in scope and accessible to students and general readers, Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States explores con

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Gender in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun by Gary Wiener

Gary Wiener | Gender in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun | The landmark play A Raisin in the Sun takes its title from a Langston Hughes poem which poses the questions ‘What happens to a dream deferred? Does it

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Gender(Ed) Identities by Tricia Clasen; Holly Hassel

Tricia Clasen; Holly Hassel | Gender(Ed) Identities | This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children’s and young adult literature. It c

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Queer China by Hongwei Bao

Hongwei Bao | Queer China | This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examine