The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian literature
By: edited by Scott Herring
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781107646186
Subjects: Lesbians in literature; History and criticism; Gays' writings, American; Homosexuality and literature; Gay men in literature
Description: "This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: What do we mean by the phrase "American Gay and Lesbian Literature"?  -- Scott Herring; title: Queer novelties  -- Michael Cobb; title: Queer theater and performance  -- Sean Metzger; title: Queer poetry, between 'as is' and 'as if'  -- Eric Keenaghan; title: Writing queer lives: autobiography and memoir  -- Julie Avril Minich; title: Queer cinema, queer writing, queer criticism  -- Lucas Hilderbrand; title: Nineteenth-century queer literature  -- Travis Foster; title: Literary and sexual experimentalism in the interwar years  -- Daniela Caselli; title: The Cold War closet  -- Michael P. Bibler; title: The time of AIDS and the rise of 'post-gay'  -- Guy Davidson; title: Gender and sexuality  -- L. H. Stallings; title: Intersections of race, gender, and sexuality: queer of color critique  -- Kyla Wazana Tompkins; title: Psychoanalytic literary criticism of gay and lesbian American literature  -- Judith Roof; title: Post-structuralism: originators and heirs  -- Melissa Jane Hardie; title: Transnational queer imaginaries, intimacies, insurgencies -- Martin Joseph Ponce.