2nd Edition

Cultural Politics - Queer Reading

By Alan Sinfield Copyright 1994
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics – Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies. An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the book's agenda for a new form of cultural critique and a truly political lesbian and gay studies.... Read more
Situating Cultural Politics – Queer Reading (2004) Foreword 1. Shakespeare and Dissident Reading 2. Art as Cultural Production 3. Un-American Activities 4.Beyond Englit Notes. Texts Cited. Index

Biography

Alan Sinfield has taught mainly at the University of Sussex. There he co-founded the lesbian and gay studies program Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change in 1990. He is one of the most controversial academics in English, Literary and Cultural Studies and has lectured widely in Europe and North America. Until recently he was Editor of our hugely influential journal Textual Practice.