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Benjamin Kahan - The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature

Av Benjamin Kahan

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Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies and sexuality studies became deeply entwined and what they can teach each other. It examines how American literature produces and is in turn woven out of sexualities, gender pluralities, trans-ness, erotic subjectivities, and alternative ways of inhabiting bodily morphology. In so doing, the volume aims to do nothing less than revise the ways in which we understand the whole of American literature. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-06-06
  • Mått: 161 x 236 x 48 mm
  • Vikt: 1 570 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 924
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108843454
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Benjamin Kahan is the Robert Penn Warren Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Louisiana State University. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Reed Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the University of Sydney, the University of Pittsburgh, Emory University, and Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life (2013) and The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality (2019).

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'If there were an adjective twice as big as gargantuan, that would be the word to describe The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, a magisterial collection that verges toward nine hundred pages and contains more than fifty authors. That may seem hyperbolic, but to this reader it feels more like understatement when faced with reviewing this book's achievements. Highlighting methods, contents, practices, and narratives, editor Benjamin Kahan has accomplished a major feat through bringing together this wide-ranging collection of writers, critics, and academics who explore the multipronged intersections and causeways of queerness and American literature. Because this work underlines the centrality of queerness to the past, present, and future of American literary studies, it raises ambitious possibilities. Indeed, the most exciting aspect of this book is that it showcases how often the most absorbing work in literary analysis dovetails with queer studies: queer is both animus and principle that propels some of the most captivating research in literature to date. As such, this volume has the capacity to reshape the trajectory of multiple fields of study in the ensuing years and offers crucial reading material for all research libraries. In this manner, it is impressive to read what has been the result of thousands of hours in this veritable Who's Who of queer studies in the contemporary academy.' Ben Bascom, American Literary History

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