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Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic Sexuality, Literature, Archives: Sexuality, Literature, Archives

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Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives examines one of the most fascinating sexual renegades of the twentieth century and the social, cultural, pedagogical, and erotic projects with which he was engaged. This innovative collection, edited by Debra A. Moddelmog and Martin Joseph Ponce, examines the life and work of Samuel Steward at their most daring and controversial. Samuel Steward—writer, literature professor, visual artist, tattoo artist, sexual archivist, unofficial sexologist, and vernacular pornographer—gave voice and vision to some of the central concerns of twentieth-century U.S. gay culture and politics. These essays frame Steward not merely as an associate or a lover of more well-known luminaries but as a significant cultural figure in his own right, one whose work anticipated some of the current aims and methods of queer studies.
With work by prominent scholars in queer, transgender, and sexuality studies, and with topics such as the queer archive, hoarding, masochism, the queer mystery, race and desire, sexology, and gay pornography, Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic will appeal to a wide range of readers across a variety of disciplines invested in queer experience. Closing on a personal recollection from one of Steward’s last close friends, the volume will also appeal to readers interested in the personal aspects of this fascinating, idiosyncratic figure’s multifaceted life.

ISBN-13: 9780814253977

Media Type: Paperback(1)

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Publication Date: 03-14-2017

Pages: 252

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Debra A. Moddelmog is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Martin Joseph Ponce is Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Martin Joseph Ponce Debra A. Moddelmog 1

I Archives: Indexing, Saving, Hoarding

1 Sam Steward's Pornography: Archive, Index, Trace Tim Dean 25

2 Ungilting the Gold Scar Gay Aren Z. Aizura Emmett Ramstad 44

3 On Late-Life Samuel Steward Scott Herring 68

II Writings: Sexology, Mysteries, Essays

4 Samuel Steward's Autoethnographic Sexology Debra A. Moddelmog 85

5 The Mysteries of Samuel Steward and Gertrude Stein, Private Eyes Karen Leick 105

6 "Foibles and Fripperies, Reminiscences and Tributes": Reading Samuel Steward's Lost Chicago Essays Jeremy Mulderig 122

III Desires: Masochism, Race, Pornography

7 Queerest of the Queer: Why Samuel Steward's Masochism Matters Jennifer Burns Bright 143

8 Revisiting Racial Fetishism: Interracial Desire, Revenge, and Atonement in Samuel Steward's Stud Martin Joseph Ponce 162

9 The Law of Pornography: John Rechy and Samuel Steward Steven Ruszczycky 179

IV Recollections

10 Remembering Sam Michael Williams 201

Bibliography 215

Contributors 228

Index 231