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Literary Criticism

Are the Kids All Right by B. J. Epstein

May 17, 2025December 4, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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

Categories LGBT Studies/Social Sciences, Literary Criticism

Gender Bending Detective Fiction by Heather Duerre Humann

May 17, 2025September 24, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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

Categories LGBT Studies/Social Sciences, Literary Criticism, Mystery

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

May 17, 2025September 24, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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

Categories LGBT Studies/Social Sciences, Literary Criticism

Queer China by Hongwei Bao

May 17, 2025September 14, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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

Categories Asian Interest, LGBT Studies/Social Sciences, Literary Criticism

Narratives of Queer Desire by Margaret Sonser Breen

May 17, 2025September 14, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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

Categories Literary Criticism

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

May 17, 2025September 14, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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

Categories Anthology - Nonfiction, Black Interest, LGBT Studies/Social Sciences, Literary Criticism

Gender(Ed) Identities by Tricia Clasen; Holly Hassel

May 17, 2025September 14, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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

Categories LGBT Studies/Social Sciences, Literary Criticism

The Highest Apple by Judy Grahn

May 17, 2025September 11, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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

Categories Literary Criticism, Poetry

Color, Sex, And Poetry by Gloria T. Hull

May 17, 2025September 11, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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

Categories Autobiography/Biography, Black Interest, Literary Criticism, Literary History

Really Reading Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein; Judy Grahn

May 17, 2025September 11, 2020 by NorthShore Noir Press

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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