Category - Literary Criticism
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Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Chisholm (English, U. of Alberta) examines recent experiments in queer city writing through Walter Benjamin's dialectical optics on metropolitan cu...
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Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Opacity and the Closet interrogates the viability of the metaphor of "the closet" when applied to three important queer figures in postwar American...
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Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/O American Sexual Practice
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /How should we understand the bugarrón, a man who has sex with other men while regarding himself as heterosexual? Reaching beyond queer and gay stu...
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Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A passionate exhortation to expand the ways we talk about human sex, sexuality, and gender Twenty-five years ago, Mark D. Jordan published his land...
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The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent...
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, s...
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Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Southern literature has long been heralded for its tragic sentiments, in its somber and necessary acknowledgments of the region's tormented past,...
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Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic Sexuality, Literature, Archives: Sexuality, Literature, Archives
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives examines one of the most fascinating sexual renegades of the twenti...
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Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia’s little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers ...
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Heaven
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A finalist for the Believer Book AwardEmerson Whitney writes, "Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess." What follows is that mess-ele...
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Heaven
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /For more information, visit McSweeneys.net Named a best book by The AV Club, PAPER Magazine, LitHub, Ms. Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, Refiner...
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James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in...
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Conversations with Terrence McNally
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of Broadway and the start of the Off-Broadway theater movement, Terre...
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Manning Up: Transsexual Men Finding Brotherhood, Family and Themselves
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. A call to trans men everywhere to embrace their personal journey of transition, MANNING UP brings together a ...
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TIFF: A Life of Timothy Findley
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers--an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his caree...
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Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book is the first study of the formation of the idea of homosexuality in Ireland into the twentieth century and centers on an account of Wilde...
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Ladies Almanack
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking le...
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The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of disposse...
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Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /How should we understand the bugarrón, a man who has sex with other men while regarding himself as heterosexual? Reaching beyond queer and gay stu...
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Style: A Queer Cosmology
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Assembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture to assert the elemental natureof style While "style" is equated with fashion or c...
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Masculinity in Transition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Locating the roots of toxic masculinity and finding its displacement in unruly culture Masculinity in Transition analyzes shifting relationships t...
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Italian Trans Geographies
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic rou...
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Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period In Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace La...
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Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare: 'Rich in Will'
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Beginning with how the signifier 'will' operates in Shakespearean contexts, this book, unlike other studies, deals fully with how Shakespeare's pl...
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