The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies

by Siobhan B. Somerville (Editor)

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture.  Rather than being organized around a set of literary texts defined by a particular theme, literary movement, or demographic, this volume foregrounds a queer critical approach that moves across a wide array of literary traditions, genres, historical periods, national contexts, and media. This book traces the intellectual and political emergence of queer studies, addresses relevant critical debates in the field, provides an overview of queer approaches to genres, and explains how queer approaches have transformed understandings of key concepts in multiple fields.

Genres: Nonfiction, LGBT

280 pages, Paperback

Published July 16, 2020

About the author

Siobhan B. Somerville is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Purdue University.

Reviews

[Sofia Costa Lima]

[mais uma leitura para um trabalho de literatura comparada, já com saudades de ler qualquer coisinha não teórica, mas surpreendida com o quanto estes ensaios me deram que pensar — e com o quanto constatei que, na minha visão heterossexual, não sabia realmente o que era queer]