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Narratives of Queer Desire

Author : M. Breen
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133011283

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Narratives of Queer Desire: Deserts of the Heart is an interdisciplinary project that uses literary analysis, especially close reading, along with personal testimony and the applications of gender theory, as a means for identifying, looking at, and exploring LGBTQ stories. Taking its subtitle from Jane Rule's novel Desert of the Heart, Narratives of Queer Desire considers queer yearnings for stories other than those conventionally available, stories that, often located at the social margins ('deserts') and subject to violent regulation, engage and resist norms in literature as well as culture and politics. Narratives of Queer Desire offers a story about the power of storytelling: within our personal, professional, and political lives and at the sites of our desire, including the classroom. This is a story about how literature encounters loss, staves off aggression, and answers erasure by offering itself as a site of care and empowerment and activism for LGBTQ people.

Living Sexuality

Author : Keith Berry,Catherine M. Gillotti,Tony Adams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004418790

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Living Sexuality by Keith Berry,Catherine M. Gillotti,Tony Adams Pdf

Living Sexuality: Stories of LGBTQ Relationships, Identities, and Desires explores the ways in which sexuality, particularly LGBQ identities, inform everyday contexts of relational communication.

Territories of Desire in Queer Culture

Author : David Alderson,Linda R. Anderson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719057612

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Territories of Desire in Queer Culture by David Alderson,Linda R. Anderson Pdf

This book engages with, and develops, current debates about desire and sexual identification by focusing on a wide selection of contemporary literature, film, and theory. These texts range from the novels of Alan Hollinghurst and Paul Magrs to the work of Pedro Almodovar, RuPaul, Derek Jarman, and Camille Paglia, as well as TV programs like "Ellen" and "Shinjuku Boys, " and individual films such as Collard's "Savage Nights."

Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative

Author : Tory Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000346152

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Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative by Tory Young Pdf

This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a diverse range of texts and media. Classical Narratology, an allegedly neutral descriptive system for features of narrative, has been replaced by a diverse set of theories which are attentive to the contexts in which narratives are composed and received. Issues of gender and sexuality have, nevertheless, been sidelined by new strands which consider, for example, cognitive, transmedial, national or historical inflections instead. Through consideration of texts including the MTV series Faking It and the papers of a nineteenth-century activist, Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative heeds the original call of feminist narratologists for the consideration of a broader and larger corpus of material. Through analysis of issues including the popular representation of lesbian desire, the queer narrative voice, invisibility and power in the digital age, embodiment and cognitive narratology, reading and racial codes, this book argues that a named strand of narrative theory which employs feminist and queer theories as intersectional vectors is contemporary and urgent. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice.

Persistence

Author : Ivan Coyote,Zena Sharman
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551524054

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Persistence by Ivan Coyote,Zena Sharman Pdf

Lambda Literary Award finalist American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and inflexible categories. The pages in this book describe the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts also pounded for some reason the first time they read or heard the words "butch" or "femme." Contributors such as Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Thea Hillman (Intersex), S. Bear Bergman (Butch is a Noun), Chandra Mayor (All the Pretty Girls), Amber Dawn (Sub Rosa), Anna Camilleri (Brazen Femme), Debra Anderson (Code White), Anne Fleming (Anomaly), Michael V. Smith (Cumberland), and Zoe Whittall (Bottle Rocket Hearts) explore the parameters, history, and power of a multitude of butch and femme realities. It's a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today’s ever-shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come. Includes a foreword by Joan Nestle, renowned femme author and editor of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, a landmark anthology originally published in 1992. Ivan E. Coyote is the author of seven books (including the novel Bow Grip, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book) and a long-time muser on the trappings of the two-party gender system. Zena Sharman is the assistant director of Canada's national Institute of Gender and Health.

The Shapes of Fancy

Author : Christine Varnado
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452961637

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Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is “queer,” as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of Fancy offers a powerful new method of accounting for ineffable and diffuse forms of desire, mining early modern drama and prose literature to describe new patterns of affective resonance. Starting with the question of how and why readers seek traces of desire in texts from bygone times and places, The Shapes of Fancy demonstrates a practice of critical attunement to the psychic and historical circulations of affect across time within texts, from texts to readers, and among readers. Closely reading for uncharted desires as they recur in early modern drama, witchcraft pamphlets, and early Atlantic voyage narratives and demonstrating how each is structured by qualities of secrecy, impossibility, and excess, Christine Varnado follows four “shapes of fancy”: the desire to be used to others’ ends; indiscriminate, bottomless appetite; paranoid self-fulfilling suspicion; and melancholic longings for impossible transformations and affinities. These affective dynamics go awry in atypical and perverse ways. In other words, argues Varnado, these modes of feeling are recognizable on the page or stage as “queer” because of how, and not by whom, they are expressed. This new theorization of desire expands the notion of queerness in literature, decoupling the literary trace of queerness from the binary logics of same-sex versus opposite-sex and normative versus deviant that have governed early modern sexuality studies. Providing a set of methods for analyzing affect and desire in texts from any period, The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading, making a case for readerly investment and identification as vital engines of meaning making and political insight.

Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories

Author : Alifa Rifaat
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478615491

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Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat Pdf

“More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society.” So states the translator’s foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author’s best short stories. Rifaat (1930–1996) did not go to university, spoke only Arabic, and seldom traveled abroad. This virtual immunity from Western influence lends a special authenticity to her direct yet sincere accounts of death, sexual fulfillment, the lives of women in purdah, and the frustrations of everyday life in a male-dominated Islamic environment. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies, the collection admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque, but often full of profound anguish and personal isolation. Badriyya’s despairing anger at her deceitful husband, for example, or the haunting melancholy of “At the Time of the Jasmine,” are treated with a sensitivity to the discipline and order of Islam.

We Had No Rules

Author : Corinne Manning
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551528007

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We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning Pdf

A young teenager stays a step ahead of her parents’ sexuality-based restrictions by running away and learns a very different set of rules. A woman grieves the loss of a sister, a “gay divorce,” and the pain of unacknowledged abuse with the help of a lone wallaby on a farm in Washington State. A professor of women’s and gender studies revels in academic and sexual power but risks losing custody of the family dog. In Corinne Manning’s stunning debut story collection, a cast of queer characters explore the choice of assimilation over rebellion. In this historical moment that’s hyperaware of and desperate to define even the slowest of continental shifts, when commitment succumbs to the logic of capitalism and nobody knows what to call each other or themselves—Gay? Lesbian? Queer? Partners? Dad?—who are we? And if we don’t know who we are, what exactly can we offer each other? Spanning the years 1992 to 2019, and moving from New York to North Carolina to Seattle, the eleven first-person stories in We Had No Rules feature characters who feel the promise of a radically reimagined world but face complicity instead.

Queering Desire

Author : Róisín Ryan-Flood,Amy Tooth Murphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003858041

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Queering Desire by Róisín Ryan-Flood,Amy Tooth Murphy Pdf

Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach, and incorporating new and established identities such as non-binary, masculine of centre (MOC), butch, and femme, this collection examines how the changing landscape for gender and sexual identities impacts on queer culture in productive and transformative ways. Within queer studies, explorations of desire, longing, and eroticism have often neglected AFAB, transfeminine, and non-binary people’s experiences. Through 25 newly commissioned chapters, a diverse range of authors, from early career researchers to established scholars, stage conversations at the cutting edge of sexuality studies. Queering Desire advances our understanding of contemporary lesbian and queer desire from an inclusive perspective that is supportive of trans and non-binary identities. This innovative interdisciplinary collection is an excellent resource for scholars, undergraduate, and postgraduate students interested in gender, sexuality, and identity across a range of fields, such as queer studies, feminist theory, anthropology, media studies, sociology, psychology, history, and social theory. In foregrounding female and non-binary experiences, this book constitutes a timely intervention.

Queer Theory

Author : Annamarie Jagose
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814742341

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Queer Theory by Annamarie Jagose Pdf

This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.

The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature

Author : B. Mennel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137069993

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The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature by B. Mennel Pdf

Defining masochism as 'literary perversion', this book probes the productivity of masochistic aesthetics in the literature of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and contemporary queer films, analysing radical accounts of desire, gender, and sexuality.

Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora

Author : Z. Pecic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137379030

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Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora by Z. Pecic Pdf

This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields.

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies

Author : Siobhan B. Somerville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108482042

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The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies by Siobhan B. Somerville Pdf

This Companion provides a guide to queer literary and cultural studies, introducing critical debates in the field and an overview of queer approaches to various genres.

Courtly and Queer

Author : Charlie Samuelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814214983

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Courtly and Queer by Charlie Samuelson Pdf

Recasts queerness in medieval French romances by juxtaposing key genres for the first time, revealing how their literary sophistication overlaps with modern conceptions of queerness.

I Like it Like that

Author : Lawrence Schimel,Richard Labonté
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1551522594

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I Like it Like that by Lawrence Schimel,Richard Labonté Pdf

Lambda Literary Award Finalist Shortlisted for a TLA Gaybie Award (Best Gay Erotica) From the editors of the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer come these intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men's desire. The stories push at the parameters of queer erotic life, featuring contributors both novice and well-known; subject matter ranges from single, significant encounters to the ephemera of emotional desires that never lead to physical pleasure. Throughout, the book deals with the essential erotics of queer male life, to be used as a launching point for exploring the queer male condition: essays that delve into the diverse manifestations of desire between and among men. I Like It Like That features smart, savvy writing about desire and sex. Unlike mainstream porn imagery that by default dominates our cultural (and therefore personal) references, contributors reach into the far reaches of memory to tell true tales about personal erotic space. Contributors include Paul Bellini, Steven Bereznai, S. Bear Bergman, Daniel Allen Cox, Jameson Currier, Viet Dinh, Larry Duplechan, Daniel Gawthrop, Sky Gilbert, Aaron Hamburger, Shaun Levin, Steve MacIsaac, Tim Miller, Andy Quan, and Shawn Syms.