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245 04 The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian 
       literature /|cedited by Scott Herring, Indiana University.
264  1 New York, NY :|bCambridge University Press,|c2015. 
300    xxiv, 248 pages ;|c23 cm. 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Cambridge Companions to Literature 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  1. Queer novelties / Michael Cobb -- 2. Queer theater and 
       performance / Sean Metzger -- 3. Queer poetry, between 'as
       is' and 'as if' / Eric Keenaghan -- 4. Writing queer lives
       : autobiography and memoir / Julie Avril Minich -- 5. 
       Queer cinema, queer writing, queer criticism / Lucas 
       Hilderbrand -- 6. Nineteenth-century queer literature / 
       Travis Foster -- 7. Literary and sexual experimentalism in
       the interwar years / Daniela Caselli -- 8. The Cold War 
       closet / Michael P. Bibler -- 9. The time of AIDS and the 
       rise of 'post-gay' / Guy Davidson -- 10. Gender and 
       sexuality / L. H. Stallings -- 11. Intersections of race, 
       gender, and sexuality: queer of color critique / Kyla 
       Wazana Tompkins -- 12. Psychoanalytic literary criticism 
       of gay and lesbian American literature / Judith Roof -- 
       13. Post-structuralism: originators and heirs / Melissa 
       Jane Hardie -- 14. Transnational queer imaginaries, 
       intimacies, insurgencies / Martin Joseph Ponce. 
520    "This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ 
       populations and American literature from the late 
       eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary 
       and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay 
       and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking 
       in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices 
       within the field of American literary studies. This 
       Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness 
       pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying
       attention to the transnational component of such 
       literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, 
       conventional historical backgrounds, and influential 
       interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ 
       literatures in the United States"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520    "Writing anything definitive about the queer American 
       novel will always be unsatisfying, if not impossible. 
       Unsatisfying, because the romances they contain are 
       uncertain and, quite often, doomed: heartbreak, violence, 
       and persecution pepper nearly every page. Impossible, 
       because the genre's terrain is as vast and uncertain as 
       America itself: the spaces, the characters, plots, ideas, 
       and dynamics - too varied. The minute you say one thing, 
       you could say another. And perhaps that might be the 
       point. As one character from Djuna Barnes's lesbian novel 
       Nightwood puts it, "With an American anything can be 
       done.'"1 We could say the same about the queer American 
       novel. If there is anything consistently connecting this 
       genre, it is that it features, however obliquely, the 
       effects characters (usually American, but not always) have
       as they seek reasons for why they have sexual feelings for
       those that are not obvious or traditional object choices. 
       Frequently, these effects instruct characters in their 
       pursuit of self-knowledge and self-understanding, 
       especially if others have pathologized their desires (and 
       America has and does pathologize its queers). In her 
       autobiographical graphic memoir Fun Home, Alison Bechdel 
       tells a story of a variety of discoveries that books, 
       explicitly queer or not, can inspire. During the same 
       afternoon when she acknowledges that she is a "lesbian," 
       she also finds herself asking a professor to let her take 
       his course on James Joyce's Ulysses - her father's 
       favorite book. As we move from the captions and the 
       meticulous, stylized drawings, canonical books acquire an 
       increasingly important role: books become guides to how 
       Bechdel will affect "a convergence" with her "abstracted 
       father.""--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Gay people's writings, American|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Homosexuality and literature. 
650  0 Gay men in literature. 
650  0 Lesbians in literature. 
650  7 Gay men in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00939161 
650  7 Gays' writings, American.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00939314 
650  7 Homosexuality and literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00959818 
650  7 Lesbians in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00996587 
650  7 Queer-Theorie.|0(DE-588)7628620-4|2gnd 
650  7 Homosexualität.|0(DE-588)4122204-0|2gnd 
650  7 Literatur.|0(DE-588)4035964-5|2gnd 
651  7 United States.|0(DE-588)4078704-7|2gnd 
655  7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635 
700 1  Herring, Scott,|d1976- 
830  0 Cambridge companions to literature. 
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