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Chapter 15 - Queer Critical Regionalism

from Part IV - Key Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2020

By
J. Samaine Lockwood
Edited by
Siobhan B. Somerville
Siobhan B. Somerville
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Summary

This chapter examines the intersection of regionalisms and queer studies with special attention to US literary studies. It asks what difference, if any, queer critical regionalism as an intellectual approach may make in analyses of literature of the imperial center. Attempting to answer this question, the chapter revisits a short story that depicts queer love – “The Queen’s Twin” (1899) – by Sarah Orne Jewett, a US regionalist writer who has figured prominently in both scholarship on US literary regionalism and queer studies. By analyzing this story, the chapter demonstrates the potential of queer critical regionalism as an approach that both encourages comparative and transnational queer studies research and enables reevaluation of texts like Jewett’s that have hitherto been understood as foundational to a queer Western literary canon.

Keywords

Queer regionalismcritical regionalismqueer ruralityqueer mobilityAmerican literaryregionalismSarah Orne Jewett“The Queen’s Twin,” queer imperialism
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The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies , pp. 228 - 240
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Arondekar, Anjali, and Patel, Geeta, eds. “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies.” Special issue, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 22, no. 2 (2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Çakirlar, Cüneyt, ed. “Queer/ing Regions.” Themed section, Gender, Place & Culture 23, no. 11 (2016): 1615–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cruz-Malavé, Arnaldo, and Manalansan, Martin F. IV, eds., Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. New York: New York University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Fetterley, Judith, and Pryse, Marjorie. Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Grewal, Inderpal, and Kaplan, Caren. “Global Identities: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 7, no. 4 (2001): 663–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Larner, Wendy, and Walters, William. “The Political Rationality of ‘New Regionalism’: Toward a Genealogy of the Region.” Theory and Society 31, no. 3 (2002): 391–432.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Phillips, Richard, Watt, Diane, and Shuttleton, David, eds. De-Centering Sexualities: Politics and Representations beyond the Metropolis. London: Routledge, 2000.Google Scholar
Povinelli, Elizabeth A., and Chauncey, George, eds. “Thinking Sexuality Transnationally.” Special issue, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 5, no. 4 (1999).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Powell, Douglas Reichert. Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.Google Scholar

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