...Tyler Bradway Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Hurley Natasha Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2018 . xviii + 320 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 B o o k s i n B r i e f FROM ROGUE CIRCULATION TO QUEER NOVEL Tyler Bradway...

... , Michael . Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot . Berkeley: U of California P, 1980 . Goffman , Erving . Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963 . James , Henry . The Art of the Novel . Forewd...

... as guides for intimate behavior. Attending to this dimension of homonormative experience not only shifts current queer conversations about norms but also extends the relevance of such conversations back into the past. Ann Bannon's midcentury lesbian paperback novels are rich sources of information about...

... they spell out on a Ouija board. The poem also includes fragments of a second story, a retelling of a lost novel of Merrill's. In her essay Sedgwick talks about the poem's structure, likening the spacing of fragments of Ephraim's voice throughout the poem with the spacing of fragments of the lost novel...

...Manuel Betancourt Known for his controversial first novel, City of Night (1963), John Rechy is a Chicano gay writer whose reputation as a documenter of the seedy sexual underworld of hustlers and tricks has set the tone for discussions about his work. Interrogating this characterization...

...Elizabeth Lundberg This essay examines restrictions on and opportunities for agency in Fledgling , Octavia Butler's 2005 science fiction vampire novel. Reading agency through three relational modes—belonging, trauma, and consensual nonconsent—it argues that Fledgling helps us critically consider...

...Richard Rambuss A revisionary understanding of the Passion of Christ lies at the crux of the spiritual cultural work that Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code (2003) undertakes no less so than in Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ (2004). Both works, each highly didactic in its own way...

...Matt Richardson Using Jackie Kay's novel Trumpet , this essay looks at the “social death” of black queerness, a positionality situated outside the nation and outside blackness, as a site from which to explore what it would mean for black men to embrace the feminine within themselves. Although...

...Kadji Amin The backward turn to anachronistic forms of punishment and bygone historical periods in Jean Genet's 1946 memoir-novel, Miracle of the Rose , is not fully intelligible either as a retrograde resistance to “progressive” politics or as a compensation for the impossibility of same-sex...

... mediating conflicts within multiracial modernity in South Africa's emergent public culture, and I analyze the work done by queer “minor characters” in novels by Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. None to Accompany Me (1994), The House Gun (1998), and Disgrace (1999) all tell the story of white, middle-class...

...Jenny M. James This article offers a comparative analysis of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt , and Todd Haynes’s 2015 film adaptation, Carol , to bear witness to the often-overlooked history of pre-Stonewall queer parenthood and to imagine a more radical future of queer kinship...

...Melina Alice Moore This essay explores Ann Bannon’s lesbian pulp series “The Beebo Brinker Chronicles” through the lens of trans studies, placing her eponymous hero in conversation with the inversion rhetoric of sexological discourse and the transgender pulp novels that circulated alongside...

... a Black standpoint. This essay examines Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (1901) as a powerful example of Black vernacular sexology, arguing that the novel performs a case study of a Southern aristocrat to reveal how whiteness is constructed through a perverse and sexualized obsession...

...Bethany Schneider Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie (1935) is a cannibal text. Zitkala-Ša's (Yankton-Nakota) essays “Impressions of an Indian Childhood” and “The School Days of an Indian Girl” (1900) can be found in the guts of the settler-colonial children's novel. Practices...

...Teresa de Lauretis This essay advances a series of critical points in queer theory. First, a text is queer, regardless of the queerness of its authorial persona, if it carries the inscription of sexuality as something more than sex. This is argued in relation to Djuna Barnes's novel Nightwood (1936...

...Lisa Marie Cacho Carla Trujillo's novel What Night Brings , set in the mid- to late 1960s, critiques Chicano cultural nationalist narratives for too easily entangling racial emasculation with economic exclusion and domestic violence. Considering how this critique of male violence can also...

... beach, Les Salines. This essay seeks to cross temporal, scalar, and disciplinary boundaries while revisiting tropes of queer invisibility that mark representations of same-sex desire in the Caribbean. Cycling from the world described in the 1901 erotic novel Une nuit d'orgie à Saint-Pierre, Martinique...

... in her life. Through a reading of her poetry, journals, and political activities, I argue that late twentieth-century US gender and sexual categories, as well as novel forms of queer intimacy, were forged in the material relations of print-related wage work. Rather than claiming to queer these texts...

... of queer eroticism. The novel’s provocations of bad reading condense an affective archive of unsanctioned queer hermeneutics, which have been elided in disciplinary debates over critical reading. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Samuel R. Delany queer experimental literature AIDS...

..., “Queers Read This! LGBTQ Literature Now” takes seriously how, why, and what queers read. Looking to both Eve Sedgwick’s foundational 1996 special issue of Studies in the Novel , as well as the work of Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Gloria Anzuldua, and other queer writers of color in the 1970s and 1980s...