Monica B. Pearl: AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

The Literature of Loss. UK 2015, 200 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Taylor and Francis
This book discusses the significance of late 20th century and early 21st century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is expressed and worked out in literature, showing how key texts from the ... Weiterlesen

C. Riley Snorton: Nobody Is Supposed to Know

Black Sexuality on the Down Low. USA 2014, 200 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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University of Minnesota Press
Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the »down low« - black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual - has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the »Oprah Winfrey Show« to R & B singer R. Kelly's hip hopera »Trapped in the Closet«. Most down-low ... Weiterlesen

Donald E. Hall and Annamarie Jagose (eds.): The Routledge Queer Studies Reader

UK/USA 2012, 586 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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Routledge
»The Routledge Queer Studies Reader« provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant, interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of queer studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents individual introductory ... Weiterlesen

W.C. Harris: Queer Externalities

Hazardous Encounters in American Culture. USA 2009, 251 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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In TV shows such as »Queer Eye for the Straight Guy«, and movies like »Brokeback Mountain«, as well as gay young adult novels and other media coverage of queer people - including the outing of several prominent Republicans - queer lives are becoming more visible in the media and in U.S. culture more generally. How does the increasing visibility of ... Weiterlesen

Fabio Cleto (ed.): Camp

Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader. UK 1999, 523 pp., brochure, € 55.99
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Edinburgh University Press
The book addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage. Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp written by leading intellectuals in cultural ... Weiterlesen