The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies

This Companion provides a guide to queer literary and cultural studies, introducing critical debates in the field and an overview of queer approaches to various genres.

Siobhan B. Somerville (Edited by)

9781108482042, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 June 2020

276 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.54 kg

'The collection is both an invaluable and authoritative resource for scholars and an excellent teaching tool for use in the classroom.' A. J. Ramirez, Choice

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture.  Rather than being organized around a set of literary texts defined by a particular theme, literary movement, or demographic, this volume foregrounds a queer critical approach that moves across a wide array of literary traditions, genres, historical periods, national contexts, and media. This book traces the intellectual and political emergence of queer studies, addresses relevant critical debates in the field, provides an overview of queer approaches to genres, and explains how queer approaches have transformed understandings of key concepts in multiple fields.

Part I. Genealogies
1. Genealogies of Queer Theory Kadji Amin
2. Queer Writing, Queer Politics: Working Across Difference Keguro Macharia
Part II. Confluences
3. Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicities: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique Chandan Reddy
4. Transgender Studies, or How to Do Things With Trans* Cáel Keegan
5. Queer Indigenous Studies, or Thirza Cuthand's Indigequeer Film June Scudeler
6. Queer Disability Studies Alison Kafer
7. Queer Ecologies Nicole Seymour
Part III. Representation
8. Queer Poetics: Deviant swerves, in three Ren (Rachel) Ellis Neyra
9. Queer Narrative Anne Mulhall
10. Trace a Vanishing: or, Queer Performance Study Nadia Ellis
11. Queer and Trans Studies in Pop Culture: Transgender Tripping Points in the Carceral State Erica Rand
12. Queer Digital Cultures Kate O'Riordan
Part IV. Key Words
13. Queer Diasporic Crossings and the Persistence of Desire in The Book of Salt Martin Joseph Ponce
14. Diaspora, Displacement, and Belonging: The Politics of Family and the Future of Queer Kinship Richard T. Rodríguez
15. Queer Critical Regionalism J. Samaine Lockwood.

Subject Areas: Gay & Lesbian studies [JFSK], Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism [JFSJ5], Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ], Cultural studies [JFC], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literary theory [DSA]