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After Queer Studies centers the literature and critical practices that instigated queer studies and charts trajectories for its further evolution.
List of contents
Introduction: thinking sideways, or an untoward genealogy of queer reading E. L. McCallum and Tyler Bradway; Part I. Reading Queery Literary History: 1. Shakespearean sexualities Stephen Guy-Bray; 2. Write, paint, dance, sex: queer styles/American fictions Dana Seiter; 3. Queer Lantix studies and queer Latinx literature 'after' queer theory, or: thought and art and sex after pulse Ricardo Ortiz; Part II. Reading Queer Writer: 4. Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw in queer time: law, lawlessness, and the mid twentieth-century after-life of a decadent person Richard A. Kaye; 5. After queer Baldwin Matt Brim; 6. Revision, origin, and the courage of truth: Henry James's New York edition prefaces Kevin Ohi; 7. All about our mothers: race, gender, and the reparative Amber Musser; Part III. Reading Queerly: 8. Camp performance and the case of discotropic Nick Salvato; 9. Reading in juxtaposition: comics Andre Carrington; 10. Reading for transgression: queering genres Rebekah Sheldon; 11. Sovereignty: a mercy Sharon Patricia Holland.
About the author
Tyler Bradway is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading (2017). He is the editor of 'Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing', a forthcoming special issue of College Literature, and his essays have appeared or are forthcoming in venues such as GLQ, Mosaic, Stanford Arcade, American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 (Cambridge, 2018), and The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In (forthcoming).E. L. McCallum is Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University, and author of Unmaking The Making of Americans: Toward an Aesthetic Ontology (2018) and Object Lessons: How to Do Things with Fetishism (1999); she co-edited with Mikko Tuhkanen The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature (Cambridge, 2014), and Queer Times, Queer Becomings (2011). Her essays have appeared in camera obscura, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Postmodern Culture, Poetics Today, and differences, as well as edited collections (including The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic (Cambridge, 2014), Primary Stein (2014), and Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond (2014). She recently won the Paul Varg Alumni Award for Faculty, recognizing outstanding teaching and scholarly achievement at Michigan State University.
Summary
This book asks what makes queer studies possible, and what does queer studies make possible? While social science approaches shape thinking about sexuality, gender, and race, this collection emphasizes the role of reading, imagination, and interpretation in these discussions, reclaiming literary roots for queer studies and its futures.
