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A Genealogy of Queer Theory

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Eden Osucha
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 890–891.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-890
Published: 01 December 2001
...) and Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet (1957–60) are a manifestation of post–World War II sexual anxiety. 874 American Literature While many of the texts Boone examines are not American, his frame- work—which incorporates queer theory, race studies, and feminism, and ex- plores both...
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Into the Morass: Chesnutt, Antinormativity, and the Queer Politics of Early Jim Crow Literature

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Timothy Marshall Griffiths
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 495–522.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994781
Published: 01 September 2018
... theory and queer of color critique. In doing so I take steps toward a literary genealogy of queer US sex politics that runs from Plessy v. Ferguson and early Jim Crow, into modernism, and down through women of color feminism of the late 1980s before its formal or academic consecration in contemporary US...
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“Flesh-to-Flesh Contact”: Marvel Comics’ Rogue and the Queer Feminist Imagination

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Anthony Michael D’Agostino
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 251–281.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4564298
Published: 01 June 2018
... Annual #10, and the end of her first major character arc, Uncanny X-Men #185, reveal that this affective figure for queerness is variable and derived from X-Men writer Chris Claremont’s ongoing engagement with feminist politics and theory. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 queer...
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A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

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Stefanie K. Dunning
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 654–656.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994943
Published: 01 September 2018
... it for its unexamined imperialist investments rather than simply celebrating it based on an intuitive assumption about queer theory’s radical potential. Readers should not, however, take Pérez’s critique as an attack on queer theory. Baldwin once said that it was out of his love for America that he insisted...
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Announcement

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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 865–867.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3454762
Published: 01 December 2015
... to queer life. Moreover, the medium has had a long history as a top reading choice among those “queer” subjects variously called sexual deviants, juvenile delin- quents, dropouts, the working class, and minorities of all stripes. Despite this, comics studies and queer theory have remained...
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Relative Strangers: Contracting Kinship in the Queer Ecology Classroom

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Sarah Ensor
American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3861517
Published: 01 June 2017
... reparative gesture, enabling us to reckon with the ways in which higher education has abandoned us without requiring us, in turn, to abandon it. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 kinship contagion risk pedagogy queer theory ecocriticism Picture the perfectly corporatized...
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Introduction: Queer about Comics

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Darieck Scott, Ramzi Fawaz
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 197–219.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4564274
Published: 01 June 2018
... choice among those “queer” subjects variously called sexual deviants, juvenile delinquents, dropouts, the working class, and minorities of all stripes. Despite this, comics studies and queer theory have remained surprisingly alienated from each other. On the one hand, classical comics studies’ tendency...
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Announcements

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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 207–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453792
Published: 01 March 2016
..., Number 1, March 2016 DOI 10.1215/00029831-3453792 © 2016 by Duke University Press 208 American Literature juvenile delinquents, dropouts, the working class, and minorities of all stripes. Despite this, comics studies and queer theory have remained surprisingly alienated from one another...
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On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America

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Benjamin Kahan
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 415–417.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886319
Published: 01 June 2015
...), the extension of federal benefits to married gay people in United States v. Windsor (2013), and the mass of legal decisions following Windsor striking down gay marriage bans have necessitated a reconsidera- tion of queer theory’s politics of recognition. These three thoughtful and fas- cinating...
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Spinster Ecology: Rachel Carson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Nonreproductive Futurity

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Sarah Ensor
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 409–435.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587395
Published: 01 June 2012
... the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”2 Much recent queer theory, by contrast, insistently resists futurity, marked as it often is by heteronormative imperatives. What does it mean, then, to develop a queer ecocriticism? How might we envision a mode of environmental...
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Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity; Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall

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Stephanie Foote
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 460–462.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-460
Published: 01 June 2003
... concerns of queer theory and gay and lesbian history, seem at first glance to be entirely dissimilar. Looking like What You Are discusses the endurance of models of visibility as identifi- catory regimes...
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Announcements

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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 439–445.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533494
Published: 01 June 2016
...” subjects variously called sexual deviants, juvenile delinquents, dropouts, the working class, and minorities of all stripes. Despite this, comics studies and queer theory have remained surprisingly alienated from one another. On the one hand, comics studies’ tendency to analyze the formal codes...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 219–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541103
Published: 01 March 2012
... has much to say not only about queer and ecological theories and movements but also about literary history, urban space theory, history of science, legal studies, and questions of futurity. Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Ed. Michael Hames-García­ and Ernesto Javier Martínez. Durham...
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Inventing Queer: Portals, Hauntings, and Other Fantastic Tricks in the Collected Folklore of Joel Chandler Harris and Charles Chesnutt

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Don James McLaughlin
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 1–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788693
Published: 01 March 2017
... . Lee Wenshu . 2003 . “ Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn .” Journal of Homosexuality 45 , no. 2–4 : 147 – 70 . Lewis C. S. 1950 . The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe . New York : Harper Collins . Sayers William...
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Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862

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Kurt Eisen
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 865–866.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-865
Published: 01 December 2001
...) and Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet (1957–60) are a manifestation of post–World War II sexual anxiety. 874 American Literature While many of the texts Boone examines are not American, his frame- work—which incorporates queer theory, race studies, and feminism, and ex- plores both...
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America's Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre; Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

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Mary Loeffelholz
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 866–868.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-866
Published: 01 December 2001
... examines are not American, his frame- work—which incorporates queer theory, race studies, and feminism, and ex- plores both literature and art—is exceptional in its conceptual breadth and depth of plot analysis. In this postmodern moment, Boone argues, there is ‘‘lit...
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Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism

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Lynn Wardley
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 869–870.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-869
Published: 01 December 2001
...) and Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet (1957–60) are a manifestation of post–World War II sexual anxiety. 874 American Literature While many of the texts Boone examines are not American, his frame- work—which incorporates queer theory, race studies, and feminism, and ex- plores both...
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Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West

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David Holloway
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 870–871.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-870
Published: 01 December 2001
...) and Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet (1957–60) are a manifestation of post–World War II sexual anxiety. 874 American Literature While many of the texts Boone examines are not American, his frame- work—which incorporates queer theory, race studies, and feminism, and ex- plores both...
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No Mentor but Myself: Jack London on Writing and Writers, 2d. ed

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Charles L. Crow
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 871–872.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-871
Published: 01 December 2001
..., his frame- work—which incorporates queer theory, race studies, and feminism, and ex- plores both literature and art—is exceptional in its conceptual breadth and depth of plot analysis. In this postmodern moment, Boone argues, there is ‘‘lit- erallynotimeforsustainednarrativepleasure Thus, his...
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Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women

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Eric Henderson
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 872–873.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-872
Published: 01 December 2001
...) and Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet (1957–60) are a manifestation of post–World War II sexual anxiety. 874 American Literature While many of the texts Boone examines are not American, his frame- work—which incorporates queer theory, race studies, and feminism, and ex- plores both...
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