The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian literature /

"This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in U.S.-based L...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Herring, Scott, 1976- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:	Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:	Gays' writings, American > History and criticism. Homosexuality and literature. Gay men in literature. Lesbians in literature. Gays' writings, American. Queer-Theorie. Homosexualität. Literatur. USA. Amerikansk litteratur > historia. Homosexualitet och litteratur. Lesbiska kvinnor i litteraturen. Homosexuella män i litteraturen. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Cover image E-book - Full text from Cambridge Companions Online

Table of Contents:

Queer novelties / Michael Cobb
Queer theater and performance / Sean Metzger
Queer poetry, between ʺas isʺ and ʺas ifʺ / Eric Keenaghan
Writing queer lives: autobiography and memoir / Julie Avril Minich
Queer cinema, queer writing, queer criticism / Lucas Hilderbrand
Nineteenth-century queer literature / Travis Foster
Literary and sexual experimentalism in the interwar years / Daniela Caselli
The Cold War closet / Michael P. Bibler
The time of AIDS and the rise of ʺpost-gayʺ / Guy Davidson
Gender and sexuality / L.H. Stallings
Intersections of race, gender, and sexuality: queer of color critique / Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Psychoanalytic literary criticism of gay and lesbian American literature / Judith Roof
Post-structuralism: originators and heirs / Melissa Jane Hardie
Transnational queer imaginaries, intimacies, insurgencies / Martin Joseph Ponce.