The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies

Introduction

Why Queer Literary Studies (Still) Matter: The Politics of Reading from the Cold War to the War on Woke

Part I. Affect and Sensation

1. Nothing but Color: Reading for Surface in a Colorblind Era

2. Building a World: Sensation's Queer Intimacies

3. Unfeelings That Matter: On Unfeeling as Queer Literary Heuristic

Part II. Genealogies of Queer Studies

4. Between Us: A (Brief) Poetics of Queer Historiography

5. Queer Arrangements

Part III. The Literariness of Queer Studies

6. "Scrolls of Silver Snowy Sentences": Fragments from an Intellectual Autobiography

7. Sexology Otherwise, or the Literary Style of Reasoning

8. Bollywood Screen Queens: On Reading Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla's Ode to Lata

Part IV. Race, Materiality, Environmental Studies

9. "Water has a Perfect Memory": Kinship on Soft Ground in The Yellow House

10. Queer Materiality and Decay

Part V. The Politics of Queer Reading

11. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora

12. Thoughts on Queer Adoption; or, All Queers Are Artists* (*and Other Queer Mythologies)

13. Reading for Political Form

Part VI. Promiscuous Selfhoods

14. Halos: Re-Sacralizing Queer Attachments

15. The Shape of U, Or, Writing What I am Not

Part VII. Queer Maternities

16. Marie Darrieusecq's Queer (Maternal) Worldings

17. Queer Reading Protocols and the Question of Reproduction

Part VIII. Queer Pasts

18. Is There a History of Queer Poetry?

19. "Devils Dance with Angels": John Rechy's Male Hustler Novel Comes to Mardi Gras

20. Twerking with Milton by Quare Allusions in Lil Nas X's "Montero"

Part XI. Relationality

21. Ethnocuties: Notes on Queer Friendship

22. Contagious Thought: Quarantine and Communion in Times of Plague

Part X. Trans Studies, Queer Studies, and Racialized Gender

23. Not the Same, But Almost, But Not-But Almost: Reflections on Black Trans Feminism, Black/Trans/Feminism, and Queer Theory

24. "As a Rond of Flesche Yschore": The King of Tars, Race-Thinking, and Trans Childhood c. 1330

Part XI. The Value of Critique

25. Foucault's Queer Critique

26. The Queer Overanalyzer

Guide to Online Appendix: Queer Studies: What Goes on the Syllabus?

Bibliography

Index