The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading

What does it mean to read queerly? The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading upholds intersectional thinking to recognise the wide currency and appeal of queer studies for a new generation of scholars, activists, students, and interested allies. Its four interconnecting sections– ‘transing queer readings’, ‘reading queer ecologies’, ‘queer reading as practice’, and ‘reading queer futures’ – speak to, and help to critique and foreground, expansive queer epistemologies. Contributors evocatively explore the relationships between queerness and genders, embodiments, race, narrative, methodology, history, literature, media, and art. Bringing together emerging and established queer theorists, this timely collection demonstrates how germane queer readings, theories, and companions are to the livelihood of interdisciplinary research and humanistic inquiry in the 2020s.

Appeal · Expansive · Human sexuality · Queer · Queer theory · Reading (process) · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

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