The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian literature / edited by Scott Herring.

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"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 stud...

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Other Authors: Herring, Scott, 1976-
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Gay people's writings, American > History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature.
Gay men in literature.
Lesbians in literature.
Physical Description:xxiv, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: What do we mean by the phrase "American Gay and Lesbian Literature"? / Scott Herring
  • Queer novelties / Michael Cobb
  • Queer theater and performance / Sean Metzger
  • Queer poetry, between 'as is' and 'as if' / Eric Keenaghan
  • Writing queer lives: autobiography and memoir / Julie Avril Minich
  • Queer cinema, queer writing, queer criticism / Lucas Hilderbrand
  • Nineteenth-century queer literature / Travis Foster
  • Literary and sexual experimentalism in the interwar years / Daniela Caselli
  • The Cold War closet / Michael P. Bibler
  • The time of AIDS and the rise of 'post-gay' / Guy Davidson
  • Gender and sexuality / L. H. Stallings
  • Intersections of race, gender, and sexuality: queer of color critique / Kyla Wazana Tompkins
  • Psychoanalytic literary criticism of gay and lesbian American literature / Judith Roof
  • Post-structuralism: originators and heirs / Melissa Jane Hardie
  • Transnational queer imaginaries, intimacies, insurgencies / Martin Joseph Ponce.