After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21st Century

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After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice. It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and argues for the prominent role that literary studies has played in establishing the concepts, methods, and questions of contemporary queer theory. It shows how queer studies has had an impact on many trending concerns in literary studies, such as the affective turn, the question of the subject, and the significance of social categories like race, class, and sexual differences. Bridging between queer studies' legacies and its horizons, this collection initiates new discussion on the irreducible changes that queer studies has introduced in the concepts, methods, and modes of literary interpretation and cultural practices. 04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 05.0_pp_v_vi_Contents 06.0_pp_vii_ix_Notes_on_Contributors 07.0_pp_x_x_Acknowledgments 08.0_pp_1_18_Introduction 09.0_pp_19_68_Reading_Queer_Literary_History 09.1_pp_21_34_Shakespearean_Sexualities 09.2_pp_35_51_Write_Paint_Dance_Sex 09.3_pp_52_68_Queer_Latinx_Studies_and_Queer_Latinx_Literature_After_Queer_Theory_or_Thought_and_Art_and_Sex_after 10.0_pp_69_136_Reading_Queer_Writers 10.1_pp_71_86_Oscar_Wilde_and_George_Bernard_Shaw_in_Queer_Time 10.2_pp_87_101_After_Queer_Baldwin 10.3_pp_102_121_Revision_Origin_and_the_Courage_of_Truth 10.4_pp_122_136_All_About_Our_Mothers 11.0_pp_137_206_Reading_Queerly 11.1_pp_139_153_Camp_Performance_and_the_Case_of_Discotropic 11.2_pp_154_170_Reading_in_Juxtaposition 11.3_pp_171_187_Reading_for_Transgression 11.4_pp_188_206_Sovereignty 12.0_pp_207_210_Index