Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies

Melissa E. Sanchez is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her most recent books are Shakespeare and Queer Theory (2019) and Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition (2019).

• IntroductionWhy Queer Literary Studies (Still) Matter: The Politics of Reading from the Cold War to the War on WokePart I. Affect and Sensation1. Nothing but Color: Reading for Surface in a Colorblind Era2. Building a World: Sensation’s Queer Intimacies3. Unfeelings That Matter: On Unfeeling as Queer Literary HeuristicPart II. Genealogies of Queer Studies4. Between Us: A (Brief) Poetics of Queer Historiography5. Queer ArrangementsPart III. The Literariness of Queer Studies6. “Scrolls of Silver Snowy Sentences”: Fragments from an Intellectual Autobiography7. Sexology Otherwise, or the Literary Style of Reasoning8. Bollywood Screen Queens: On Reading Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla’s Ode to LataPart IV. Race, Materiality, Environmental Studies9. “Water has a Perfect Memory”: Kinship on Soft Ground in The Yellow House10. Queer Materiality and DecayPart V. The Politics of Queer Reading11. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora12. Thoughts on Queer Adoption; or, All Queers Are Artists* (*and Other Queer Mythologies)13. Reading for Political FormPart VI. Promiscuous Selfhoods14. Halos: Re-Sacralizing Queer Attachments15. The Shape of U, Or, Writing What I am NotPart VII. Queer Maternities16. Marie Darrieusecq’s Queer (Maternal) Worldings17. Queer Reading Protocols and the Question of ReproductionPart VIII. Queer Pasts18. Is There a History of Queer Poetry?19. “Devils Dance with Angels”: John Rechy’s Male Hustler Novel Comes to Mardi Gras20. Twerking with Milton by Quare Allusions in Lil Nas X’s “Montero”Part XI. Relationality21. Ethnocuties: Notes on Queer Friendship22. Contagious Thought: Quarantine and Communion in Times of PlaguePart X. Trans Studies, Queer Studies, and Racialized Gender23. Not the Same, But Almost, But Not—But Almost: Reflections on Black Trans Feminism, Black/Trans/Feminism, and Queer Theory24. “As a Rond of Flesche Yschore”: The King of Tars, Race-Thinking, and Trans Childhood c. 1330Part XI. The Value of Critique25. Foucault’s Queer Critique26. The Queer OveranalyzerGuide to Online Appendix: Queer Studies: What Goes on the Syllabus?BibliographyIndex