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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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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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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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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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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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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Tendencies
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Sto...
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Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Oscar Wilde is remembered as a wit and a dandy, as a gay martyr, and as a brilliant writer, but his philosophical depth and political radicalism ar...
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