The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading
Published on 30. November 2024
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-1-3995-2480-3 (ISBN)
Description
What does it mean to read queerly? The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading upholds intersectional thinking to recognise the wide currency and appeal of queer studies for a new generation of scholars, activists, students and interested allies. Its four interconnecting parts - 'transing queer readings', 'reading queer ecologies', 'queer reading as practice' and 'reading queer futures' - speak to, and help to critique and foreground, expansive queer epistemologies. Contributors evocatively explore the relationships between queerness and genders, embodiments, race, narrative, methodology, history, literature, media and art. Bringing together emerging and established queer theorists, this timely collection demonstrates how germane queer readings, theories and companions are to the livelihood of interdisciplinary research and humanistic inquiry in the 2020s.
Reviews / Votes
Queer reading can be casual or urgent, intimate or collective, playful or critical, personal or political - or all at once! In the depth and variety of its brilliant approaches to queer reading, The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading points us to the power and possibilities of the encounter between body, text and world, all the while keeping us attentive to the radical potential of reading itself. -- Neel Ahuja, University of MarylandMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
32 black and white illustrations, 32 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 176 mm
Width: 251 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
962 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-2480-3 (9781399524803)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jeremy Chow is Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University (USA). Chow's scholarship interweaves literary studies, the environmental humanities and queer studies. Chow is the editor of Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (2023) and the author of The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century (2023). Declan Kavanagh is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent (UK). Kavanagh's research covers eighteenth-century studies, queer studies, and disability studies. He is the author of Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain (2017) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the literary history of masculinities and queerness.
Content
Contributors
Foreword: Queer Reading Saves Lives, Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Introduction: On Queer Reading with Companions, Jeremy Chow and Declan Kavanagh
Companion I. Transing Queer Readings
1. The (Ongoing) History of an Evil Twin: Queer Theory and Transgender Studies, Desmond Huthwaite
2. Flesh and Fluids: The Problem of Sex Determination in Eighteenth-Century Intersex Case Studies, Jolene Zigarovich
3. Trans Reading in South Asia: Taxonomies of Loyalty in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Anandama?h, M.A. Miller
4. Deviant Sexualities, Dissident Citizenships: Queer Performances During El Paro, Javier Perez-Osorio
5. Face, Frevo, and Faz que Vai (2015): Reading Queer and Trans of Colour Performance Between Cosmetic Practice and Stereoscopic Vision, Lawrence Alexander
Companion II. Reading Queer Ecologies
6. Queer Transnational Ecologies: Marrying a Tree, Sushmita Chatterjee & Banu Subramanian
7. Hothouse Nature: Queer Hybridity in Nineteenth-Century France, Natalie Deam
8. Encountering Queer Becomings in Elizabeth Bishop's Animal-Human Hybrids, Karen Eckersley
9. Erotic Kingdoms: Mating, Materiality and Meaning, Katie Goss & Rebecca Reynolds
10. Chicken: A Queer, Visual Ecopoetics, Andil Gosine
11. All Tree, All Shade: The Queer Apocalyptic Ecologies of RuPaul's Drag Race, Jeremy Chow
Companion III. Queer Reading as Practice
12. From Buckingham to Varble: Race and Queerness in Early Modern Performance and Appropriations, Anita Raychawdhuri
13. Historians of the Closet: Queering the Past in Contemporary Lesbian, Gay, and Trans Fiction, Declan Kavanagh
14. Sodomites and White Sticks: Close Encounters and Intersections with E.F.Benson and Edward Carpenter, Chris Mounsey
15. Staying With the Sodomy at Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman and Nature's Queer Negativity, declan wiffen
16. Queering the History of the UK's Anti-Trafficking Sector, Anna Forringer-Beal
17. 'Friendship as a Way of Life': Queering Derrida and Cixous' Aimance, Eleri Anona Watson
Companion IV. Reading Queer Futures?
18. Viral Antiretroviral Bodies: Queerness, Sex, Contagion, Joao Florencio
19. Listening to Queer Ghosts, Naoise Murphy
20. Queering Feminism, Finn Mackay
21. A/biding Time in the Heterocene, Bradley Harmon
22. At the Crossroads: Queer Studies and Intersectionality Fatigue, Ben Nichols
Afterword: Looking Askance: Reading History, Reading Queerness, GerShun Avilez
Bibliography
Foreword: Queer Reading Saves Lives, Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Introduction: On Queer Reading with Companions, Jeremy Chow and Declan Kavanagh
Companion I. Transing Queer Readings
1. The (Ongoing) History of an Evil Twin: Queer Theory and Transgender Studies, Desmond Huthwaite
2. Flesh and Fluids: The Problem of Sex Determination in Eighteenth-Century Intersex Case Studies, Jolene Zigarovich
3. Trans Reading in South Asia: Taxonomies of Loyalty in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Anandama?h, M.A. Miller
4. Deviant Sexualities, Dissident Citizenships: Queer Performances During El Paro, Javier Perez-Osorio
5. Face, Frevo, and Faz que Vai (2015): Reading Queer and Trans of Colour Performance Between Cosmetic Practice and Stereoscopic Vision, Lawrence Alexander
Companion II. Reading Queer Ecologies
6. Queer Transnational Ecologies: Marrying a Tree, Sushmita Chatterjee & Banu Subramanian
7. Hothouse Nature: Queer Hybridity in Nineteenth-Century France, Natalie Deam
8. Encountering Queer Becomings in Elizabeth Bishop's Animal-Human Hybrids, Karen Eckersley
9. Erotic Kingdoms: Mating, Materiality and Meaning, Katie Goss & Rebecca Reynolds
10. Chicken: A Queer, Visual Ecopoetics, Andil Gosine
11. All Tree, All Shade: The Queer Apocalyptic Ecologies of RuPaul's Drag Race, Jeremy Chow
Companion III. Queer Reading as Practice
12. From Buckingham to Varble: Race and Queerness in Early Modern Performance and Appropriations, Anita Raychawdhuri
13. Historians of the Closet: Queering the Past in Contemporary Lesbian, Gay, and Trans Fiction, Declan Kavanagh
14. Sodomites and White Sticks: Close Encounters and Intersections with E.F.Benson and Edward Carpenter, Chris Mounsey
15. Staying With the Sodomy at Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman and Nature's Queer Negativity, declan wiffen
16. Queering the History of the UK's Anti-Trafficking Sector, Anna Forringer-Beal
17. 'Friendship as a Way of Life': Queering Derrida and Cixous' Aimance, Eleri Anona Watson
Companion IV. Reading Queer Futures?
18. Viral Antiretroviral Bodies: Queerness, Sex, Contagion, Joao Florencio
19. Listening to Queer Ghosts, Naoise Murphy
20. Queering Feminism, Finn Mackay
21. A/biding Time in the Heterocene, Bradley Harmon
22. At the Crossroads: Queer Studies and Intersectionality Fatigue, Ben Nichols
Afterword: Looking Askance: Reading History, Reading Queerness, GerShun Avilez
Bibliography