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Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, edited by Jes Battis, collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. The contributors' essays address the various relationships between sexuality and scholarship within their respective programs, and present arguments on topics ranging from queer literature to police brutality. This is the first anthology to specifically explore the role of queer and transgender intellectuals-in-training within the academy, and the contributors both analyze and challenge the structures of academia that they are working in as cultural critics.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Homofiles: Desire, Praxis, and Pedagogy
Part 2 Part One
Chapter 3 Chapter One: There Are Transsexuals in Our Middle Schools!
Chapter 4 Chapter Two: "It Is about Geography and Memory": Coming to Voice with/in/out Academia
Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence
Chapter 6 Chapter Four: "A New Hope": The Psychic Life of Passing
Part 7 Part Two
Chapter 8 Chapter Five: Fuck/The Police: Queering Narratives of Police Brutality in Post 9-11 New York
Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Read at Your Own Risk
Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: Realizations about Connections: A Literacy/Teaching Narrative
Part 11 Part Three
Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: Not Fab Enough: Consumer Gay Identity and the Politics of Representation
Chapter 13 Chapter Nine: Don't Dream It, Be It: Cult(ure), Fetishism and Spectacle in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and King Lear
Chapter 14 Chapter Ten: Suddenly Last Semester: What Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer Taught Me About Queer Dis-Ease
Chapter 15 About the Contributors

Product details

Published Dec 14 2011
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 172
ISBN 9780739131930
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Jes Battis

Contributor

Billy Clem

Contributor

Brianne Colon

Contributor

Marty Fink

Contributor

Em McAvan

Contributor

Marcos Moldes

Contributor

C Riley Snorton

Contributor

Nicholas Wright

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