Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing Queer Retrosexualities; Chapter 01. Cutting up the "Dirty Dark Secret" Generation; Chapter 02. The Surface of Things in Far from Heaven; Chapter 03. Queer Retrospection and the Politics of American Studies; Chapter 04. "Shimmering" Backwards; Afterword; Index
Summary
Queer Retrosexuality: The Politics of Reparative Return analyzes the cultural, theoretical, and political value of thinking about retrospection in conjunction with queerness. It historically grounds and exemplifies the call for a more "reparativel