1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies
Introduction: Why Queer Literary Studies (Still) Matter: The Politics of Reading from the Cold War to the War on Woke
Melissa E. Sanchez
PART I: Affect and Sensation
1 Nothing but Color: Reading for Surface in a Colorblind Era
Melanie Abeygunawardana
2 Building a World: Sensation’s Queer Intimacies
Amber Jamilla Musser
3 Unfeelings that Matter: On Unfeeling as Queer Literary Heuristic
Xine Yao
PART II: Genealogies of Queer Studies
4 Between Us: A (Brief) Poetics of Queer Historiography
Peter Coviello
5 Queer Arrangements
Stephen Guy-Bray
PART III: The Literariness of Queer Studies
6 “Scrolls of Silver Snowy Sentences”: Fragments from an Intellectual Autobiography
Tim Dean
7 Sexology Otherwise, or the Literary Style of Reasoning
Benjamin Kahan
8 Bollywood Screen Queens: On Reading Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla’s Ode to Lata
Ashvin R. Kini
PART IV: Race, Materiality, Environmental Studies
9 “Water Has a Perfect Memory”: Kinship on Soft Ground in The Yellow House
Davy Knittle
10 Deformalism, Decomposition, Rot: Deviant Aesthetics at the End of Legibility
Kyla Wazana Tompkins
PART V: The Politics of Queer Reading
11 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora
Lee Edelman
12 Thoughts on Queer Adoption; or, All Queers Are Artists* (*and Other Queer Mythologies)
Octavio R. González
13 Reading for Political Form
Mark Rifkin
PART VI: Promiscuous Selfhoods
14 Halos: Re-Sacralizing Queer Attachments
Michael Cobb
15 The Shape of U, or, Writing What I Am Not
Madhavi Menon
PART VII: Queer Maternities
16 Marie Darrieusecq’s Queer (Maternal) Worldings
Carla Freccero
17 Queer Reading Protocols and the Question of Reproduction
Matty Hemming
PART VIII: Queer Pasts
18 Is There a History of Queer Poetry?
Stephanie Burt
19 Devils Dance with Angels: John Rechy’s Male Hustler Novel at Mardi Gras
Richard Rambuss
20 Twerking with Milton by Quare Allusions in Lil Nas X’s “Montero”
Reginald A. Wilburn
PART IX: Relationality
21 Ethnocuties: Notes on Queer Friendship
Eng-Beng Lim
22 Contagious Thought: Quarantine and Communion in Times of Plague
Kathryn Schwarz
PART X: Trans Studies, Queer Studies, and Racialized Gender
23 Not the Same, But Almost, But Not—But Almost: Reflections on Black Trans Feminism, Black/Trans/Feminism, and Queer Theory
Marquis Bey
24 “As a Rond of Flesche Yschore”: The King of Tars, Race-Thinking, and Trans Childhood c. 1330
Nat Rivkin
PART XI: The Value of Critique
25 Foucault’s Queer Critique
David M. Halperin
26 The Queer Overanalyzer
Corey McEleney
Biography
Melissa E. Sanchez is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her most recent books are Shakespeare and Queer Theory (2019) and Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition (2019).
