Queer Theory (Literature)

Recognizing Billy Budd In Beau Travail Epistemology and Hermeneutics of An Auteurist 'Free'Adaptation

by Catherine Grant

¿ Cómo se piensa lo “queer” en América Latina?(Presentación Dossier)

by Maria Amelia Viteri

“Is she queer?”: Fanny Price’s Protest Against Sublime and Beautiful Heteronormativity

by Emily Snow

Review of Richard Dellamora's Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing.

by Jana Funke

"Everything Nowadays Has to be Queer and Gender': Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Novels of Antje Rávic Strubel

by Helen Finch

Forthcoming in Women in German Yearbook (28), 2012

"Queer Porno? S/M-Fiktionen" [Annie Sprinkle, Pat Califia, Dennis Cooper]. Freundschaft unter Vorbehalt. Chancen und Grenzen lesbisch-schwuler Bündnisse. Ed. Stefan Etgeton and Sabine Hark. Berlin: Querverlag, 1997. 99-126.

by Ralph Poole

[Varför sover Pippi med fötterna på kudden?]

by Maria Nikolajeva

A Gay-Themed Young Adult Novel as Alternative Rhetoric

by Karen Whitley

This literature review is part of a larger research project for ENGL 5363: Research Methods in TC and Composition. I am taking my second doctoral course. Even though I am a gay person, I knew very little about queer theory going into this project. Additionally, I am brand new to the field of TCR. My biggest challenges were trying to read, understand, and synthesize Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet, and David L. Wallace's new book Compelled to Write: Alternative Rhetoric in Theory and Practice. After developing a working understanding of those texts, I then had to situate what I wanted to do, which was perform a rhetorical analysis on a gay-themed, young adult diary-novel called Miguel's Secret Journal by A.V. Zeppa, within the field of composition and rhetoric.

In this literature review, I will define the larger cultural problem using my own knowledge and experience as a gay... more In this literature review, I will define the larger cultural problem using my own knowledge and experience as a gay person, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet, and Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. Understanding the larger cultural problem is critical because it is the real-life backdrop against which I pose all of my questions. Next, I will explain how a gay-themed, young adult diary-novel is a rhetorical act and how analyzing that text is also a rhetorical act by providing a broad definition of rhetoric as well as a recently proposed definition of alternative rhetoric by David L. Wallace in Compelled to Write: Alternative Rhetoric in Theory and Practice. I intend to conclude with a discussion about what questions are important for a rhetor to ask when analyzing a gay-themed, young adult diary-novel, and which frameworks might best serve the rhetor in exploring answers to those questions.

The Centaur and the Cyborg: Abject Becoming on the Colonial Frontier

by Elizabeth McMahon

In Southerly 67.1-2, (2007): 211-225.

From Caput Mundi to Culus Mundi. Medieval and Early Modern Myths of the Roman Colosseum.

by Lila Yawn

Paper delivered at the conference:  Mythologies 2010: Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations, University of Aberystwyth/University of Wales Conference Center, Newtown, Wales, 14 July 2010.  Currently in preparation for print publicaton.

The Flavian Amphitheater in Rome underwent a remarkable series of functional and symbolic transformations beginning in... more The Flavian Amphitheater in Rome underwent a remarkable series of functional and symbolic transformations beginning in late antiquity.  Built in the 70s C.E. as a venue for blood sports, the building in the sixth century became a quarry for stone and other materials and, by the early tenth century, a thriving artisan’s quarter, with houses and gardens filling the former arena.  By the twelfth century, the structure’s ancient raison d’être had also been forgotten—or, rather, replaced with fanciful identities, which vacillated between the celestial and the chthonic.  Medieval and early Renaissance pilgrims’ guides characterized it as temple of the Sun, once covered by a dome infused with fire and lightning, or as a temple of all of the gods, where pagan pilgrims fasted and offered sacrifice.  Long before, however, Tertullian had identified amphitheaters, with their ritualized killings, as temples of the Manes, spirits of the underworld, an idea that resurfaced in the Renaissance, when the Colosseum became both an abandoned ruin and a place of magic, necromancy, and underworld activity.  This paper examines the material and cultural conditions that accompanied the transition between the predominance of these celestial and chthonic myths.  In particular, it will consider how the edifice and its reputation functioned as emblems of Rome during the early decades of the sixteenth century, when Benvenuto Cellini, who went there to conjure up demons in c. 1533, and other authors called it “Culiseo,” likening it to an anus and associating it with the “Italian vice,” i.e. sodomy.

Breaking to Build

by Alev Adil

Queer Theory and Discourses of Desire

by Louise O. Vasvári

Queering Artists' Books: A Queer Critical Analysis of Artists' Books (Unedited Version)

by Michael Carosone

Another Side of Clare Savage’s Identity Crisis: A Queer Theoretical Analysis of Michelle Cliff’s Abeng

by Michael Carosone

Acceptance or Rejection: The Uncertainty and Insecurity of Homosexual Italian Americans

by Michael Carosone

Disgracing the Family?: The History/Non-History of Gay Italian Americans

by Michael Carosone

Queer Italian Americans as Part of the Mosaic of Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Power

by Michael Carosone

THE QUEER JOYS OF SEXLESS MARRIAGE: COUPLED CITIZENSHIP'S HOT BED!

by Tiffany Jones

Jones, T. (2009). The Queer Joys of Sexless Marriage: Coupled Citizenship’s Hot Bed! Sextures, 1(1)

A “sexless marriage” seems a most joyless and banal union to many, old as matrimony itself. Yet the new sexless... more A “sexless marriage” seems a most joyless and banal union to many, old as matrimony itself. Yet the new sexless marriage championed in this paper does not concern cold-bedded companionships, but the legal union of two citizens whose sexed bodies remain unspecified, unsignified and unimportant … in legislation (their importance in bed is left to participating citizens to determine). This article considers the recent changes to marriage legislation in European countries through the frame of Queer Theory. It particularly reflects on the introduction of the sexless marriage in Norway and Sweden, in the context of other models. It applies Judith Butler’s notions of gender performativity to the policisation of partnerships, applying her concepts of Overplay, Transference and Erasure in the disruption of the heterosexual matrix within coupled citizenship. It considers the varying value of marriage models to Queer projects in “opening up” citizenship, offering new perspectives on “gay marriage” debates.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory

by Tiffany Jones

Jones, T. (2010). The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory. Culture, Health & Sexuality.13(3): 373-375.

“Sexuality and the Feminine Space in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.”

by David Callahan

Op.Cit. [Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies] 5. 2002: 9-21.