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  title info:
    title: Queer Oz
    sub title: L. Frank Baum's trans tales and other astounding adventures in sex and gender
  name:
    name part: Pugh, Tison
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Regardless of his own sexual orientation, L. Frank Baum's fictions revel in queer, trans and other transgressive themes. Baum's life in the late 1800s and early 1900s coincided with the rise of sexology in the Western world, as a cascade of studies heightened awareness of the complexity of human sexuality. His years of productivity also coincided with the rise of children's literature as a unique field of artistic creation. Best known for his Oz series, Baum produced a staggering number of children's and juvenile book series under male and female pseudonyms, including the Boy Fortune Hunters series, the Aunt Jane's Nieces series, and the Mary Louise series, along with many miscellaneous tales for young readers. Baum envisioned his fantasy works as progressive fictions, aspiring to create in the Oz series "a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out." In line with these progressive aspirations, his works are often sexually progressive as well, with surprisingly queer and trans touches that reject the standard fairy-tale narrative path toward love and marriage. From Ozma of Oz's backstory as a boy named Tip to the genderless character Chick the Cherub, from the homosocial adventures of his Boy Fortune Hunters to the determined rejection of romance for Aunt Jane's Nieces, Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender shows how Baum exploited the freedoms of children's literature, in its carnivalesque celebration of a world turned upside down, to reimagine the meanings of gender and sexuality in early twentieth-century America and to reenvision them for the future.
  table of contents: Abbreviated titles of Baum's works -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: a primer on L. Frank Baum's queer lexicon -- Chapter 1. L. Frank Baum's "Progressive Fairies" and the queerness of children's literature -- Chapter 2. Trans tales of Oz and elsewhere -- Chapter 3. Queer eroticisms in Oz and elsewhere -- Chapter 4. The queer creatures of Oz and elsewhere eat one another -- Chapter 5. John R. Neill: illustrator (and author) of L. Frank Baum's queer Oz and elsewhere -- Chapter 6. Cultural projection, homosocial adventuring, and the queer conclusions of Floyd Akers's "Boy Fortune Hunters" series -- Chapter 7: Gender, genres, and the queer family romance of Edith Van Dyne's "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series -- Conclusion: Queer ethics and Baum's prejudices -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
  note: Tison Pugh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
      name part: 1856-1919
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Queer theory
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality in literature
  subject:
    topic: Gender identity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Sexual orientation in literature
  subject:
    topic: Transgender people in literature
  subject:
    topic: Fantasy fiction, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Children's stories, American
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS3503.A923 P84 2023
  classification: 813/.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Children's Literature Association series
  identifier: 9781496845313
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  identifier: 9781496845368
  identifier: 9781496845344
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 221222
    record change date: 20230814143406.1
    record identifier: in00004733709