Comparatively Queer Interrogating Identities across Time and Cultures

by Spurlin, William J.; Hayes, Jarrod; Higonnet, Margaret R.

• ISBN13: 9780230104365
• ISBN10: 0230104363
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinarity of both. By focusing not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating our assumptions and categories of analysis,Comparatively Queerpowerfully transforms the paradigms of comparison.

Author Biography

Jarrod Hayes is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan. 

 

Margaret R. Higonnet is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut and co-chair of the Gender Study Group at Harvard University’s Centre for European Studies. 

 

William J. Spurlin is Reader in English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence & Cultural Change at the University of Sussex. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Comparing Queerly, Queering Comparison: Theorizing Identities between Cultures, Histories, and Disciplines	p. 1
Crossing Time	p. 21
Queer from the Very Beginning: (En)gendering the Vernacular in Medieval France	p. 23
Figural Historiography: Dogs, Humans, and Cynanthropic Becomings	p. 45
Mapping Sapphic Modernity	p. 69
"Fair Is Not Fair": Queer Possibility and Fairground Performers in Western Europe and the United States, 1870-1935	p. 91
Time's Corpus: On Sexuality, Historiography, and the Indian Penal Code	p. 113
Crossing Cultures	p. 129
Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong	p. 131
Universal Particularities: Conceptions of Sexuality, Nationality, and Culture in France and the United States	p. 153
"Words Create Worlds": Rethinking Genre in the Animal Fables of Suniti Namjoshi and Vikram Seth	p. 171
Genet among the Palestinians: Sex, Betrayal, and the Incomparable Real	p. 193
Afterword: Comparisons Worth Making	p. 215
List of Contributors	p. 225
Index	p. 229
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