Comparatively Queer Interrogating Identities Across Time and Cultures [Hardcover]

These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinary of both.?The?book?focuses not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating our assumptions and categories of analysis.Introduction: Comparing Queerly, Queering Comparison: Theorizing Identities between Cultures, Histories, and Disciplines; J.Hayes, M.R.Higonnet & ?W.J.Spurlin PART I: CROSSING TIME Queer from the Very Beginning: (En)gendering the Vernacular in Medieval France; K.Campbell Figural Historiography: Dogs, Humans, and Cynanthropic Becomings; C.Freccero Mapping Sapphic Modernity; S.S.Lanser 'Fair Is Not Fair': Queer Possibility and Fairground Performers in Western Europe and the United States, 18701935; F.Canad? Sautman Time's Corpus: On Sexuality, Historiography, and the Indian Penal Code; A.Arondekar PART II: CROSSING CULTURES Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong; M.-P.Ha Universal Particularities: Conceptions of Sexuality, Nationality, and Culture in France and the United States; T.J.D.Armbrecht 'Words Create Worlds': Rethinking Genre in the Animal Fables of Suniti Namjoshi and Vikram Seth; B.Jackson Genet among the Palestinians: Sex, Betrayal, and the Incomparable Real; J.Penney Afterword: Comparisons Worth Making; V.Traub

Addressing a welter of topics ranging from Sapphic tales in early seventeeth-century Europe to animal fables in India, from the tensions between Western bio-medicine and Chinese cosmology in modern-day Hong Kong to the tensions between gender and sexual legislation in contemporary France and the United Status, and from circuses, fairs, and sideshows in Western Europe to Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East, Comparatively Queer constitutes a lucid and lively intervention in the newly intersecting fields of queer and comparative literary and cultural studies. It boasts a scintillatingly diverse yet deliciously intersecting array of l“%