| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Comparing Queerly, Queering Comparison: Theorizing Identities between Cultures, Histories, and Disciplines / Jarrod Hayes, Margaret R. Higonnet, and William J. Spurlin -- PART I: Crossing Time -- Queer from the Very Beginning: (En)gendering the Vernacular in Medieval France / Kofi Campbell -- Figural Historiography: Dogs, Humans, and Cynanthropic Becomings Carla Freccero -- Mapping Sapphic Modernity / Susan S. Lanser -- "Fair Is Not Fair": Queer Possibility and Fairground Performers in Western Europe and the United States, 1870-1935 / Francesca Canaď Sautman -- Time's Corpus: On Sexuality, Historiography, and the Indian Penal Code / Anjali Arondekar -- PART II: Crossing Cultures -- Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong / Marie-Paule Ha -- Universal Particularities: Conceptions of Sexuality, Nationality, and Culture in France and the United States / Thomas J.D. Armbrecht -- "Words Create Worlds": Rethinking Genre in the Animal Fables of Suniti Namjoshi and Vikram Seth / Bianca Jackson -- Genet among the Palestinians: Sex, Betrayal, and the Incomparable Real / James Penney -- Afterword: Comparisons Worth Making / Valerie Traub |
| Summary |
These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinarity of both. By focusing not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating our assumptions and categories of analysis, Comparatively Queer powerfully transforms the paradigms of comparison |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Queer theory.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Comparative literature.
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Gay & Lesbian studies.
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Literary theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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Society.
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Comparative literature
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Gender identity in literature
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Queer theory
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Bellettrie.
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Homoseksualiteit.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Vergelijkende literatuurwetenschap.
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Queer-Theorie.
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Homosexualität.
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Lesbische Liebe.
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Sexualität.
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Sexuelle Identität.
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Kulturvergleich.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hayes, Jarrod.
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Higonnet, Margaret R.
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Spurlin, William J., 1954-
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| ISBN |
9780230113442 |
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0230113443 |
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9781349288908 |
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134928890X |
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