Category: Literary Criticism

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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

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Narratives of Queer Desire by Margaret Sonser Breen

Margaret Sonser Breen | Narratives of Queer Desire | Narratives of Queer Desire: Deserts of the Heart is an interdisciplinary project that uses literary analysis, especially close reading, along with per

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Really Reading Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein; Judy Grahn

Gertrude Stein; Judy Grahn | Really Reading Gertrude Stein | This book is organized into three sections, each beginning with an essay that clarifies the following selections, usually in excerpted form, from Stei

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The Highest Apple by Judy Grahn

Judy Grahn | The Highest Apple | An exploration of lesbian poetry.

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Color, Sex, And Poetry by Gloria T. Hull

Gloria T. Hull | Color, Sex, And Poetry | A biographical/critical study of three Harlem Renaissance poets?Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson?during a rich a

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The Art of Jaime Hernandez by Todd Hignite; Alison Bechdel

Todd Hignite; Alison Bechdel | The Art of Jaime Hernandez | In 1981 three Mexican-American brothers self-published their first comic book, Love and Rockets, and “changed American cartooning forever” according t