Inventing Queer
Portals, Hauntings, and Other Fantastic Tricks in the Collected Folklore of Joel Chandler Harris and Charles Chesnutt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3761998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Don James Mclaughlin (0000-0002-4650-5747, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-28 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00029831-3788693 |
| OpenAlex | W2595010364 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Through an analysis of Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country (1894) by Joel Chandler Harris and The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales (1899) by Charles Chesnutt, this essay attempts to account for a late nineteenth-century genre termed the queer fantastic. In so doing, it suggests that in the late nineteenth century, the term queer, as a signifier of distorted time, became central to debates over race and the nature of folkloric belonging
Art · Art history · Folklore · Literature · Queer · Race (biology) · Sociology · American Sports and Literature · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · History
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |