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Small Rain

Autor: Garth Greenwell

Número de Páginas: 270

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' – John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island 'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam 'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing' - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 'A fierce, beautiful novel' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater 'Beautiful, evocative' – The Times A medical crisis brings one man close to death – and to love, art, and beauty – in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell. A poet’s life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value – art, memory, poetry, music, care – are...

What Belongs to You

Autor: Garth Greenwell

Número de Páginas: 178

Startlingly erotic and immensely powerful, Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You tells an unforgettable story about the ways our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love. Winner of the Debut of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. 'A searching and compassionate meditation on the slipperiness of desire . . . as beautiful and vivid as poetry' – Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, their relationship growing increasingly intimate and unnerving. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he's forced to grapple with his own fraught history: his formative experiences of love, his painful rejection by family and friends, and the difficulty of growing up as a gay man in southern America in the 1990s. 'Worthy of its comparisons to James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as well as Virginia Woolf and W G Sebald ...

Cleanness

Autor: Garth Greenwell

Número de Páginas: 174

Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell’s beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared ‘an instant classic’ by the New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose, Greenwell transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers. ‘This is an exceptional work of fiction, which places Greenwell among the very best contemporary novelists.’ – Independent Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student’s confession recalls his own first love, a stranger’s seduction devolves into paternal sadism, and a romance with a younger man opens, and heals, old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek...

Small Rain

Autor: Garth Greenwell

Número de Páginas: 239

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Financial Times, New Statesman, Vox, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and BookPage A New Yorker Recommended Read of the Year A New York Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell. A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value—art, memory, poetry, music, care—are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared...

Pureté

Autor: Garth Greenwell

Número de Páginas: 248

Le narrateur de Pureté a quitté les États-Unis pour enseigner la littérature à l’American College de Sofia. Dans la capitale bulgare, encore marquée par le communisme, le professeur va apprendre à survivre à l’amour. Car ce texte, composé en trois temps, raconte sa liaison avec un étudiant portugais nommé R., puis le deuil de leur relation. Lorsque débute Pureté, leur histoire est terminée, le narrateur découvre la vie qui s’ouvre à lui sous le signe du désespoir mais également de la liberté – les applications de rencontre lui ouvrent un champ immense d’aventures possibles. Une mue sociale et aussi physique quand il expérimente la soumission sadomasochiste avec un inconnu, interrogeant les limites du plaisir, de la douleur, et de l’abandon à l’autre. Au cœur de ce triptyque, il revient ensuite sur son histoire d’amour avec R. Les premières semaines d’abord, puis leur routine passionnée et le départ inexorable de son amant. S’ouvre enfin le troisième volet du livre où l’on retrouve à nouveau le narrateur, après sa rupture, qui s’essaie cette-fois à la domination sexuelle, puis joue avec les frontières de ses principes moraux en ...

Kink

Autor: R.o. Kwon , Garth Greenwell

Número de Páginas: 288

A New York Times Notable Book Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. A Most-Anticipated book of 2021 as selected by * Marie Claire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Cosmopolitan * Time * The Millions * The Advocate * Autostraddle * Refinery29 * Shape * Town & Country * Book Riot * Literary Hub * Kink is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark, Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham, and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors. The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to ...

L'habitació d'en Giovanni

Autor: James Baldwin

Número de Páginas: 175

Als anys cinquanta, en David, un jove americà, passa els dies a París mentre espera la seva parella, la Hella, que ha de tornar d'un viatge per Espanya amb la resposta a la seva proposició de matrimoni. Però un dia, en un bar bohemi, coneix per casualitat en Giovanni, un atractiu cambrer italià per qui se sent immediatament atret. Així comencen un idil·li apassionat sota l'amenaça de l'arribada de la Hella i, amb ella, del dilema d'en David, que haurà de decidir si farà el que s'espera d'ell o serà fidel als seus sentiments. Publicada el 1956, L'habitació d'en Giovanni, la novel·la que va donar reconeixement a James Baldwin, aborda l'amor, la masculinitat, la por, l'homofòbia i, sobretot, el xoc de les exigències de la societat amb la pròpia identitat. Aquesta colpidora història és una de les obres més importants de les lletres americanes, un clàssic de la literatura LGBT i, com diu Garth Greenwell al seu postfaci, un antídot contra la vergonya.

The Centre

Autor: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Número de Páginas: 207

A The New Yorker Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Editors' Choice • An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense “The most fascinating debut I've read in years―enigmatic, biting, absurd, and right when you think you've got it figured out, utterly horrifying.” ―Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall and The Shape of Water (with Guillermo del Toro) “A gripping, surreal mystery about language, identity, and greed.” ―Peng Shepherd, bestselling author of The Cartographers “The Centre draws you in with a gentle hand until it throws the mallet down.” ―Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger “The Centre is as haunting as it is tempting; this book devoured me back.” ―Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home and Eat the Rich In this “dazzling” speculative debut, a London-based Pakistani translator furthers her stalled career by attending a mysterious language school that boasts near-instant fluency―but at a secret, sinister cost (Gillian Flynn). Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of “great works of literature,” but mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies and living off her...

Chéljelon

Autor: Marcelo Donadello

Número de Páginas: 195

Un padre cuenta un cuento a su hija. Dios llega para visitar a los amantes. Un ave de presa grita desde el árbol. Una Virgen de utilería baja del cielo en mitad del campo. Los personajes bregan a través de los días, ignorantes de esquemas mayores que los amenazan, pero la sensación es que son los países, las eras, las definiciones, quienes los atraviesan a ellos. El tono s el de la flor que se impone al basural, y el lenguaje uno al que no le importan las convenciones ni para seguirlas ni para desafiarlas. «Chéljelon», «mariposa» en lengua tehuelche, es el nombre de una constelación, más o menos la misma que los griegos conocieron como Orión, el Loco, el Cazador. La pregunta que sobrevuela el libro es si el aleteo de una mariposa que no existe puede cambiar algo en el cielo o en la tierra. Marcelo Donadello nació en Santo Tomé, Argentina, en 1966. Toda su vida se ha dedicado a la docencia musical. Ganador del Premio Ignacio Aldecoa de cuentos en castellano, Chéljelon es sin embargo y objetivamente una novela. Quizá una novela que nace como una constelación de relatos. Este libro resultó ganador de la 51.a edición del PREMIO IGNACIO ALDECOA de cuentos en...

Hombrecito

Autor: Santiago Jose Sanchez

Número de Páginas: 337

FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant’s complex relationships with his mother and his motherland In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy’s life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami. In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind. He moves to New York, ducking in and out of bed with different men as he seeks out something, someone, to make him whole again. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns to...

Long Term

Autor: Scott Herring , Lee Wallace

Número de Páginas: 181

The contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms of queer commitments and their durational aspect. They consider commitment in all its guises, particularly relationships beyond and aside from monogamous partnering. These include chosen and involuntary long-term commitments to families, friends, pets, and coworkers; to the care of others and care of self; and to financial, psychiatric, and carceral institutions. Whether considering the enduring challenges of chronic illnesses and disability, including HIV and chronic fatigue syndrome; theorizing the queer family as a scene of racialized commitment; or relating the grief and loss that comes with caring for pets, the contributors demonstrate that attending to the long term offers a fuller understanding of queer engagements with intimacy, mortality, change, dependence, and care. Contributors. Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Scott Herring, Annamarie Jagose, Amy Jamgochian, E. Patrick Johnson, Jaya Keaney, Heather Love, Sally R. Munt, Kane Race, Amy...

Bending Genre

Autor: Margot Singer , Nicole Walker

Número de Páginas: 361

Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. An early and influential book on questions of form in creative nonfiction, Bending Genre asks not where the boundaries between the genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line. The expanded second edition doubles the first edition with 23 new essays that broaden the exploration of hybridity, structure, unconventionality, and resistance in creative nonfiction, pushing the conversation forward in diverse and exciting ways. Written for writers and students of creative writing, this collection brings together perspectives from leading writers of creative nonfiction, including Michael Martone, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, David Shields, Kazim Ali--and in the new edition--Catina Bacote, Ira Sukrungruang, Ingrid Horrocks, Elena Passarello, and Aviya Kushner. Each writer's innovative essay probes our notions of genre and investigates how creative nonfiction is shaped, modeling the forms of writing being discussed. Like creative nonfiction itself, Bending Genre is an...

Dangerous Fictions

Autor: Lyta Gold

Número de Páginas: 353

In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold traces arguments both historical and contemporary that have labeled fiction as dark, immoral, frightening, or poisonous. Within each she asks: How “dangerous” is fiction, really? And what about it provokes waves of moral panic and even censorship? Gold argues that any panic about art is largely a disguised panic about power. There have been versions of these same fights over fiction for centuries. By exposing fiction as a social danger and a battleground of immediate public concern, we can see what each side really wants—the right to shape the future of a world deeply in flux and a distraction from more pressing material concerns about money, access, and the hard work of politics. From novels about people driven insane by reading novels to “copaganda” TV shows that influence how viewers regard the police, Gold uses her signature wit,...

Affective World-Making

Autor: Simi Malhotra , Sakshi Dogra , Jubi C. John

Número de Páginas: 261

This volume fosters a re-imagination of the planet where it is seen not only as a resource, but also as an entity that must not be excluded from the political imperative of care and kinship. The authors go beyond the normative understanding of space by recognizing the potency of touch, where they look at somatic experiences that invite the intensity of affect. This book questions the dominance of the capitalocene through the existence of social aesthetic and records the affective encounters that facilitate the creation of planetary identity, affinity, and entanglements. With discussions on architecture, poetry, rap music, romantic literature, performance art, digital fashion, Instagram, Netflix shows, YouTube videos, moving image practices, eco-sexual movements, and graphic narratives, the chapters in this volume initiate a conversation on what it means to inhabit the world today. An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of environmental humanities, planetary humanities, affect studies, digital humanities, and media studies, besides also being of interest to those studying interdisciplinary critical/cultural theory, Television and film...

The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies

Autor: Christopher Lloyd , Hilary Emmett

Número de Páginas: 211

The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies considers the ways in which teachers and students are affected by our encounters with literature and other cultural texts in the higher education classroom. The essays consider the range of emotions and affects elicited by teaching settings and practices: those moments when we in the university are caught off-guard and made uncomfortable, or experience joy, anger, boredom, and surprise. Featuring writing by teachers at different stages in their career, institutions, and national or cultural settings, the book is an innovative and necessary addition to both the study of affect, theories of learning and teaching, and the fields of literary and cultural studies.

Hello Stranger

Autor: Manuel Betancourt

Número de Páginas: 174

Witty and winkingly playful, Manuel Betancourt’s Hello Stranger explores modern queer romance and the expansive possibilities of ephemeral intimacies “Hello stranger.” As an opening line, you really can’t ask for better. Hello Stranger is a book about chance encounters—at a bar, through social media, in a bathhouse—and what a stranger can reveal about who we are and who we could still yet be. A stranger, after all, is a site of endless possibilities. As Manuel Betancourt looks back on his past relationships, he turns to characters and narratives that helped him question notions of what monogamy and coupledom (and relationships and marriage) can and should look like. From films like Before Sunrise and Cruising to the poetry of Frank O'Hara and the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, Betancourt uses pop culture to make sense of the alluring prospect of forging intimacies with strangers—even, or especially, the strangers within ourselves. At once a personal excavation and a broad cultural critique, Betancourt grapples with everything from online sexting and real-life cruising to divorces and throuples. Hello Stranger examines the intimacies we crave, value, and oftentimes...

The Fixed Stars

Autor: Molly Wizenberg

Número de Páginas: 285

The New York Times–bestselling author’s thoughtful and provocative memoir of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships. At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. Like many of us, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she if something at her very core could change so radically? Wizenberg forges a new path: through separation and divorce, coming out to family and friends, learning to co-parent a young child, and realizing a new vision of love. The Fixed Stars is a “spirited, terrifyingly courageous” memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family (Booklist).

Before and After the Book Deal

Autor: Courtney Maum

Número de Páginas: 385

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing—but were too afraid to ask—is in this funny, candid guide featuring advice from 150 contributors, including Anthony Doerr, Roxane Gay, and Rebecca Makkai. “Anyone who’s trying to get a book published or is in the process of being published should consider this guide required reading.” —BuzzFeed There are countless books on the market about how to write better but very few books on how to break into the marketplace with your first book. Cutting through the noise (and very mixed advice) online, while both dispelling rumors and remaining positive, Courtney Maum’s Before and After the Book Deal is a one-of-a-kind resource that can help you get your book published. Discover words of wisdom from over 150 contributors throughout the industry, including: • Bestselling authors Anthony Doerr, Roxane Gay, Lisa Ko, R. O. Kwon, Rebecca Makkai, and Ottessa Moshfegh • Cult favorites Sarah Gerard, Melissa Febos, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Mira Jacob • Agents, film scouts, film producers, translators, disability and minority activists, and and editors Together, they offer advice and share intimate anecdotes about even the...

Throw Yourself Away

Autor: Julia Jarcho

Número de Páginas: 252

Proposes that we can best understand literature’s relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In a series of readings that engage American and European works of fiction, drama, and theory from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, critic and playwright Julia Jarcho argues that these works conceive writing itself as masochistic, and masochism as sexuality enacted in writing. Throw Yourself Away is distinctive in its sustained focus on masochism as an engine of literary production across multiple authors and genres. In particular, Jarcho shows that theater has played a central role in modern erotic fantasies of the literary. Jarcho foregrounds writing as a project of distressed subjects: When masochistic writing is examined as a strategy of response to injurious social systems, it yields a surprisingly feminized—and less uniformly white—image of both masochism and authorship. Ultimately, Jarcho argues that a retheorized concept of masochism helps us understand literature itself as a sex act and shows us how writing can tend to our burdened, desirous bodies. With startling insights into such writers as Henry James, Henrik Ibsen, Mary...

This American Ex-Wife

Autor: Lyz Lenz

Número de Páginas: 289

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot—from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz “This American Ex-Wife is a bomb, a bouquet (but not a wedding bouquet), a memoir, a manifesto, and a total joy to read.”—Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me AN ELECTRIC LIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women—women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We’ve all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz Lenz is one such woman whose life fell apart after she reached a breaking point in her twelve-year marriage. But she refused to take part in that tired narrative and decided to flip the script on divorce. In this exuberant and unapologetic book, Lenz makes an argument for the advantages of getting divorced, framing it as a practical and effective solution for women to take back the power they are owed. Weaving reportage with sociological research and literature with popular culture along...

On Frank Bidart

Autor: Liam Rector , Tree Swenson

Número de Páginas: 228

Essays that explore the art and craft of Frank Bidart's poetry, with an interview with the poet

Hombrecito

Autor: José Sánchez Santiago

Número de Páginas: 251

Una novela por una brillante nueva voz, una historia queer sobre alcanzar la madurez que trata de la compleja relación entre un joven inmigrante, su madre y su madre patria. Un joven espera que su madre lo recoja del colegio. Pero a su mamá se le olvidó que es mamá y nunca llega. Se fue a buscar al padre ausente del joven a las montañas de Colombia. Cuando al fin regresa, avienta las cosas del padre en el patio trasero y emigra con sus dos hijos a Miami, donde sus vidas dan un giro dramático. En Estados Unidos, su madre trabaja de mesera, cuando antes fue doctora. El joven abraza su identidad queer sin reservas, así como abraza su nuevo hogar, pero no queda libre de una sensación de pérdida. Al ir creciendo, la relación con su madre se vuelve angustiosa, enredada, un amor tan intenso que bordea el dolor vívido, pero también es el axis sobre el cual giran todas sus decisiones. Es posible que lo haya olvidado alguna vez, pero ella está siempre en la mente de él. El joven se muda a Nueva York, entrando y saliendo de la cama de distintos hombres mientras busca algo, a alguien, que lo vuelva un hombre completo de nuevo. Cuando su madre lo invita a ir con ella a Colombia a ...

Experiencing Ways Through Words

Autor: Emily Abdeni-holman

Número de Páginas: 328

We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language as something we experience rather than make use of? This book explores the generative capacities of language, suggesting that we need to pay much greater attention to the meaning-making capabilities, and political and moral implications, of more intangible aspects of language: atmosphere, mood, texture, the mode-of-being a use of language carries — and not only carries, but gives off, sends into both its reader and writer. Advancing an interpretation of language as fundamentally attitudinal and creative, Experiencing Ways Through Words explores literature in the light of such thinking, claiming that properties we tend to sideline as ‘aesthetic’ are profoundly constitutive of a text’s capacity for significance.

Homo Psyche

Autor: Gila Ashtor

Número de Páginas: 253

Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award 2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness, queer theory conforms to a model of erotic life that is psychologically conservative and narrow. Even after several decades of combative, dazzling, irreverent queer critical thought, the field remains far from grasping that sexuality’s radical potential lies in its being understood as “exogenous, intersubjective and intrusive” (Laplanche). In particular, and despite the pervasiveness and popularity of recent calls to deconstruct the ideological foundations of contemporary queer thought, no study has as yet considered or in any way investigated the singular role of psychology in shaping the field’s conceptual impasses and politico-ethical limitations. Through close readings of key thinkers in queer theoretical thought—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and Jane Gallop—Homo Psyche introduces metapsychology as a new dimension of analysis vis-à-vis the theories of French psychoanalyst ...

The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature

Autor: Benjamin Kahan

Número de Páginas: 1037

Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies and sexuality studies became deeply entwined and what they can teach each other. It examines how American literature produces and is in turn woven out of sexualities, gender pluralities, trans-ness, erotic subjectivities, and alternative ways of inhabiting bodily morphology. In so doing, the volume aims to do nothing less than revise the ways in which we understand the whole of American literature. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates.

Baldwin: A Love Story

Autor: Nicholas Boggs

Número de Páginas: 581

Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work. Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer’s personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin’s most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac, whose long-overlooked significance as Baldwin’s last great love is explored in these pages for the first time. Nicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships—geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic— and alchemized them into novels, essays, and plays that speak truth to power and had...

And This Is My Friend Sandy

Autor: Deborah Philips

Número de Páginas: 193

This book situates the production of The Boy Friend and the Players' Theatre in the context of a post-war London and reads The Boy Friend, and Wilson's later work, as exercises in contemporary camp. It argues for Wilson as a significant and transitional figure both for musical theatre and for modes of homosexuality in the context of the pre-Wolfenden 1950s. Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend is one of the most successful British musicals ever written. First produced at the Players' Theatre Club in London in 1953 it transferred to the West End and Broadway, making a star out of Julie Andrews and gave Twiggy a leading role in Ken Russell's 1971 film adaptation. Despite this success, little is known about Wilson, a gay writer working in Britain in the 1950s at a time when homosexuality was illegal. Drawing on original research assembled from the Wilson archives at the Harry Ransom Center, this is the first critical study of Wilson as a key figure of 1950s British theatre. Beginning with the often overlooked context of the Players' Theatre Club through to Wilson's relationship to industry figures such as Binkie Beaumont, Noël Coward and Ivor Novello, this study explores the work in the...

The Experience of Expatriate English Language Teaching

Autor: David B. Wilson

Número de Páginas: 473

This is a unique applied linguistic study which demonstrates that the history of TEFLers is very different from the history of TEFL. Instead of studying theories of language learning and teaching, it explores the experience of being a TEFLer through the ages, using a wide range of fictional and fictive sources: novels, plays, biographies, memoirs, essays, and poems. Part One considers the present and recent past through an analysis of 15 fictional works and five memoirs. Part Two is concerned with the experiences of some historical iconic figures from the world of TEFL, beginning with the sixteenth century and ending with figures associated with the British Council and International House. Along the way one meets Victorian governesses, Berlitz teachers, and literary figures from the inter-War ‘Golden Age’ of travel. Interposed are some of the experiences of the author garnered during his long and varied career as an expatriate TEFLer.

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Autor: Matt Bell

Número de Páginas: 169

They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger. From lauded writer and teacher Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done is encouraging and intensely practical, focusing always on specific rewriting tasks, techniques, and activities for every stage of the process. You won’t find bromides here about the “the writing Muse.” Instead, Bell breaks down the writing process in three sections. In the first, Bell shares a bounty of tactics, all meant to push you through the initial conception and get words on the page. The second focuses on reworking the narrative through outlining, modeling, and rewriting. The third and final section offers a layered approach to polishing through a checklist of operations, breaking the daunting project of final revisions into many small, achievable tasks. Whether you are a first time novelist or a veteran writer, you will find an abundance of strategies here to help motivate you and shake up your revision process, allowing you to...

Philip Roth and the Body

Autor: Joshua Lander

Número de Páginas: 185

To what extent can the leaky, porous bodies in Philip Roth's fiction be read as symbols of resistance against anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism? Philip Roth and the Body questions the symbolic functionality of the corporeal in Roth's main works of fiction, particularly as sites of gender and racial identification for Roth's protagonists. In his recurrent employment of the abject, Roth throws into doubt the body as a coherent, stable entity, undermining his male characters' determinations of gendered and racial otherness through his porously unstable bodies. Joshua Lander draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and his theory of the 'conceptual Jew' to argue that Roth's fiction is yoked together by a shared interest in how anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jewish difference – centered around the body – pervasively inform American Jewish identities. The book also contends that Roth resists American white nationalism by transforming the body's ejaculations, excretions, secretions, and expulsions into symbols of difference that he repeatedly ties to Jewishness. At the same time, this study highlights how Roth's novels, through his focus on Jewish men, risk the reification of...

Bulgarian Literature as World Literature

Autor: Mihaela P. Harper , Dimitar Kambourov

Número de Páginas: 299

Bulgarian Literature as World Literature examines key aspects and manifestations of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature by way of the global literary landscape. The first volume to bring together in English the perspectives of prominent writers, translators, and scholars of Bulgarian literature and culture, this long-overdue collection identifies correlations between national and world aesthetic ideologies and literary traditions. It situates Bulgarian literature within an array of contexts and foregrounds a complex interplay of changing internal and external forces. These forces shaped not only the first collaborative efforts at the turn of the 20th century to insert Bulgarian literature into the world's literary repository but also the work of contemporary Bulgarian diaspora authors. Mapping histories, geographies, economies, and genetics, the contributors assess the magnitudes and directions of such forces in order to articulate how a distinctly national, "minor" literature--produced for internal use and nearly invisible globally until the last decade--transforms into world literature today.

From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium

Autor: Justin Elizabeth Sayre

Número de Páginas: 315

This illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and according to culture icon Justin Elizabeth Sayre! Based on Sayre's five-part show in New York City, From Gay to Z is a humorous collection of the rich legacy of gay culture, told through the letters of the alphabet. From ABBA to addiction, hair and makeup to HIV, Fannie Flagg to fierce, Sayre offers their own perspective on the things that have influenced gay culture today, including iconic figures, historical moments, ongoing issues in the LGBTQIA+ community, and everything in between. As gay culture is always evolving and different for everyone, this book does not serve as a definitive guide—instead, Sayre encourages readers to use this knowledge to reflect on the things that have informed their personal identities. Engagingly written and beautifully designed, From Gay to Z is a distinctive and dynamic look at gay culture for LGBTQIA+ readers everywhere. STRONG VOICE AND ENGAGING CONTENT: Sayre's writing is lively, engaging, and rich. The entries have their own style and contain humorous anecdotes, facts, commentary, and more—all told through Sayre's animated yet authoritative voice. BELOVED, ...

Entre autres univers

Autor: Emet North

Número de Páginas: 205

Quand Ted Chiang rencontre Everything Everywhere All at Once. Officiellement, Raffi étudie la matière noire dans un laboratoire, mais elle passe plutôt ses journées à effacer les étoiles sur des photographies du ciel nocturne. En inadéquation avec son travail, sa vie, son corps, elle a pour seul point d’ancrage Britt, cette artiste qu’elle aurait pu rencontrer quand elle était enfant, si elle avait osé aller lui parler. Et s’il existait un ailleurs dans lequel elle l’avait fait ? Et si la conscience pouvait glisser d’un univers à l’autre lorsque deux ramifications se croisent ? Que serait alors sa vie ? Au fil de cette quête de soi, chaque monde se fait un peu plus différent. Il y a celui dans lequel l’apocalypse est survenue, un autre où des fantômes d’ours hantent la cave, encore un dans lequel les mères se fracturent en hordes d’animaux... Et – qui sait ? – un où Raffi se sentirait à sa place. Entre autres univers est un kaléidoscope fascinant qui mêle réalisme et science pour explorer les thèmes de la relation aux autres, du poids du passé et de l’aspiration à l’authenticité. L’un des meilleurs livres de science-fiction de...

Melvill

Autor: Rodrigo Fresan

Número de Páginas: 271

Un père agonisant en proie à la fièvre et au délire raconte sa jeunesse, son Grand Tour, les palais vénitiens peuplés de figures fascinantes et maléfiques, sa ruine et son plus beau voyage, la traversée à pied du fleuve Hudson gelé ; un fils encore enfant, assis au pied du lit, recueille, attentif, ces derniers mots hallucinés. L’œuvre d’Herman Melville, auteur magistral, incompris, bien trop en avance sur son temps et jugé fou et dangereux par certains critiques de l’époque, puiserait-elle sa source dans cet ultime legs paternel ? S’interrogeant sur les méandres de la fiction, qui oscille sans cesse entre réalité et imagination, Rodrigo Fresán aborde sous un jour nouveau l’énigme de la vocation littéraire. À la fois biographie souvent inventée, roman gothique peuplé de fantômes et évocation d’un amour filial, Melvill condense tout le talent, l’humour et l’immense culture du grand écrivain argentin. Traduit de l’espagnol (Argentine) par Isabelle Gugnon « Mevill est une invocation, une “séance” : les voix du père et du fils traversent le temps pour parler d’échec et de génie, des mystères de la baleine et des vampires dans le...

La Maison en pierre

Autor: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Número de Páginas: 406

Abednago & Agnes ne s’émeuvent plus des troubles chroniques qui agitent leur ville, et le Zimbabwe tout entier. Jusqu’au jour où leur fils disparaît, comme de nombreux manifestants. Zamani, leur mystérieux locataire, semble être leur dernier espoir de le retrouver. Un premier roman âpre et étourdissant, porté par un narrateur névrosé, Zamani, pour qui tous les coups sont permis quand il s’agit de réécrire l’histoire – la sienne, et celle de son pays.

Les Incendiaires

Autor: R. O. Kwon

Número de Páginas: 165

" Le roman de R. O. Kwon est une mèche à combustion lente. Lire son texte revient à suivre la flamme qui se rapproche inexorablement de ce qu'elle va faire sauter – les personnages, l'intrigue et, en dernier lieu, le lecteur. " Viet Thanh Nguyen, auteur du Sympathisant Phoebe et Will se rencontrent dans une prestigieuse université. Elle, d'origine coréenne, est une fille solaire qui va de fête en fête mais se reproche en secret la mort de sa mère. Lui, étudiant en théologie, a perdu la foi et galère pour aider la sienne, endettée et malade. La perte est au cœur de leurs vies respectives, mais une chose est sûre : Will aime Phoebe. Rattrapée par le chagrin et la culpabilité, la jeune femme perd pied et intègre un groupe fondé par un homme aussi énigmatique que son passé est trouble. Et quand ses membres commencent à s'investir de façon de plus en plus violente dans la lutte anti-IVG, Will doit se battre contre un fanatisme qu'il croyait avoir laissé derrière lui... Un premier roman explosif qui nous parle de passion et de manipulation, de tragédie intime et de quête de soi. Avec ses personnages qui se brûlent les ailes à la flamme de leur propre...

Autorité

Autor: Andrea Long Chu

Número de Páginas: 242

Maggie Nelson, The Last of Us, Bret Easton Ellis, Yellowjackets ou Le Fantôme de l’Opéra : Autorité regroupe les chroniques les plus mémorables d’Andrea Long Chu, enrichies de sa tétralogie d’essais autobiographiques cultes et de deux enquêtes iconoclastes sur la figure du critique au travers des âges. Terriblement spirituelle et d’une intuition polémique hors pair, la Pulitzer de la critique 2023 y brave l’interdiction de mêler art et politique, brossant une contre-histoire de la discipline depuis sa création par les Lumières jusqu’à l’ère des réseaux sociaux. Une anthologie provocante sur l’une des questions les plus impérieuses de notre époque : qu’advient-il de l’autorité quand tout le monde a déjà un avis sur tout ? Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Louise Mulheim Lauréate 2023 du prix Pulitzer de la critique et chroniqueuse au New York Magazine, Andrea Long Chu est l’autrice remarquée de « De l’amour des femmes » (2017, traduit pour la première fois en France dans ce volume) et de Femelles (2021).

Par instants, le sol penche bizarrement - Carnets d'un traducteur

Autor: Nicolas Richard

Número de Páginas: 346

" Ah, vous traduisez des livres ? Vous faites comment ? Mot à mot ? " Traducteur : mode d'emploi. Dans ces carnets décalés et passionnants, le traducteur littéraire Nicolas Richard, capé et renommé, fait l'éloge de ce métier d'artisan, où chaque texte suscite son lot d'interrogations, d'émerveillements pour la langue – aussi bien anglaise que française – et la littérature. Il propose ainsi un florilège d'énigmes rencontrées au fil de sa carrière, riche d'échanges privilégiés (souvent cocasses !) avec nombre d'auteurs, et invite le lecteur à se questionner, à douter, à enquêter et à s'amuser avec lui. Are you ready ? Êtes-vous prêt ?

Cette maison est la tienne

Autor: Fatima Farheen Mirza

Número de Páginas: 441

Avant-hier soir, elle n’avait encore jamais entendu parler de ces taches qui s’amoncellent comme la poussière sur le coeur. Et si ne pas porter le foulard valait une tache, est-ce qu’une nouvelle se formerait chaque fois qu’elle déciderait de rester tête nue ? Hadia, Huda et leur petit frère Amar ont grandi sous le même toit californien, tiraillés entre rêve américain et traditions chiites de leurs parents nés en Inde.Le mariage d’Hadia est l’occasion pour les deux soeurs de revoir Amar, disparu depuis trois ans. Grâce à l’exploration de leurs souvenirs d’enfance, parfois tendres, souvent douloureux, se dessine une fresque familiale bouleversante où chaque enfant se joue des interdits pour tenter de grandir librement dans son corps, et dans son coeur. « Une fresque radieuse et superbement menée. Une magnifique nouvelle voix de la littérature. » Anthony Marra, auteur de Une constellation de phénomènes vitaux

Père éperdu

Autor: Daniel Gustafsson

Número de Páginas: 169

Premier roman limpide et frappant de sincérité, Père éperdu suit le voyage intérieur accidenté d’un père vers son fils et dresse le portait touchant d’un homme face à ce qu’il est censé être : acteur de sa vie, maître de ses émotions. Au gré d’une journée de retrouvailles et de souvenirs, où la quête d’une paire de gants prend des airs d’odyssée, Daniel Gustafsson sonde les incertitudes et les émois d’une paternité à réinventer. Traducteur suédois de Péter Nádas et Laszló Krasznahorkai, il prouve ici qu’il est déjà passé maître dans l’art de saisir les frémissements de l’âme.