Awards

• Runner-up for John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies—Popular Culture Association 2020 (United States)

Overview

 Queer women of color have historically been underrepresented or excluded completely in fiction and comics. When present, they are depicted as ""less than"" the white, Eurocentric norm. Drawing on semiotics, queer theory, and gender studies, this book addresses the imbalanced representation of queer women of color in graphic narratives and fiction and explores ways of rewriting queer women of color back into the frame. The author interrogates what it means to be ""Other"" and how ""Othering"" can be more creatively resisted.

Full Product Details

Author:   Monalesia Earle
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781476674544

ISBN 10:   147667454
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   30 August 2019
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Unmasking the Literary Canon: In Search of Our Queer(y)ing Sisters 14 delete• deleteChallenging the Privileged Narrative 15 delete• deleteMultiple and Changing Contexts 17 delete• deleteThe Souls of Queer Folks 19 delete• delete(Re)Inscribing Queer Women of Color 21 1. Misdirection: Situating the Subversive Voice in Critical Context The Semiotics of Misdirection 34 delete• deleteQueering the Ga(y)ze Through Misdirection 38 delete• deleteGraphic Incursions and Misdirection 40 2. Women of Color in Queer(ed) Space: ­Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees (1997) The Ties That Bind 48 delete• deleteWomen of Color in Queer(ed) Space 49 delete• delete“Seeing”—From Where We’re Standing: Intimate Relationships in Fall On Your Knees 52 delete• deleteBetrayal 53 delete• deletePhallocentric Rings: The Heterosexual Imperative in Private/Public Space 58 delete• deleteRosaries and the Glory of God 63 delete• deleteResistance in Eighths and Half Notes 65 delete• deleteThe Racial Imperative: Race and ­Self-Loathing 67 3. Queer(y)ing the Punk Aesthetic: Reading Race, Desire and Anarchism in Cristy C. Road’s Bad Habits (2008) Auto(bio)graphics 80 delete• deleteGraphic Beginnings 83 delete• deleteQueer(ed) Exile 84 delete• deleteAll “Road(s)” Lead Back to the Beginning 86 delete• delete Critically (Black) Punk 90 delete• deleteExperience as Cultural Representation: A Signifying Dialogue 94 delete• deleteRevolutionary Contradictions 96 delete• delete Intersecting Refrains: Punk’s ­G-Spot 98 delete• deleteResignifying the Phallus 100 4. Narrating the Margins: Queer Words and Sexual Trauma in the “Gutter”—Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place (1982) Where the Margins Are: Naylor’s Walled City 108 delete• deleteShifting the Frame 110 delete• deleteCrossroads 112 delete• deleteGraphic Imagery 115 delete• deletePrelude to a Rape 117 delete• deleteThe Alley 121 delete• deleteThe Rape 123 Between pages 130 and 131 are 8 color plates containing 13 photographs 5. Critical Meditations on Love and Madness: Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams (1996) Women, Psychiatry and Madness 133 delete• deleteTheorizing Space 136 delete• deleteWhere Madness Begins: Threading the Narrative 139 delete• deleteBeginnings 142 delete• delete Divisions 145 delete• deleteMadness, Mestiza, Memory 148 delete• deleteNaming Witness 151 delete• deleteResistance Madly Writ 153 delete• deleteBorderlands 155 6. Body Crossings: Gender, Signifying and Misdirection in Jaime Cortez’s Sexile/Sexilio (2004) Critical (Trans)Nationalisms 161 delete• deleteTheorizing the (Trans)National Ga(y)ze 163 delete• deleteMarielitos 166 delete• deleteThe Grand Entrance 170 delete• deleteThe Male (Latin) Gaze 172 delete• deleteTransitions 173 delete• deleteTransformations 178 delete• deleteExile 179 delete• deleteSignifying Practices and Misdirection 181 delete• deleteMisdirection’s ­Lessons 184 delete• delete“Passing” Performances 189 7. A Long Journey to Her Own Queer Self: Beldan Sezen’s Snapshots of a Girl (2015) Identities and Labels 194 delete• deleteReading Pictures in ­Hyper-Mediated Spaces 194 delete• deleteVisualizing the Sound of Silence 198 delete• deleteAcculturation and Its Queer Limits 200 delete• deleteFrom Whence Came the “I” 202 delete• deleteComing Out to Mother: The Injunctions of Silence—Part 1 206 delete• deleteComing Out to Mother: Who Should Be Ashamed?—Part 2 209 delete• deleteComing Out to Mother: Kadinlari Severim—Part 3 212 delete• deleteHome 214 8. A Delicate Dance with Demons: Kabi Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (2016) Misdirection and the Fetishizing Western Gaze 222 delete• deleteA Not So Private Report 229 delete• deleteThe Beginning 230 delete• delete“Help” Wanted 232 delete• deleteNo “Straight” Path to Acceptance 236 delete• deleteTherapeutic Sex in a Love Hotel 239 Conclusion Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

"""Monalesia Earle's Writing Queer Women of Color is an ambitious and thorough study that positions queer women of color in prose novels and comics. Using and queering comics theory, Earle offers several vital readings and rereadings, demonstrating how misdirection can be a meaningful artistic practice.""--Charles Hatfield Book Prize Awards Subcomittee"

“Monalesia Earle’s Writing Queer Women of Color is an ambitious and thorough study that positions queer women of color in prose novels and comics. Using and queering comics theory, Earle offers several vital readings and rereadings, demonstrating how misdirection can be a meaningful artistic practice.”—Charles Hatfield Book Prize Awards Subcomittee

Monalesia Earle's Writing Queer Women of Color is an ambitious and thorough study that positions queer women of color in prose novels and comics. Using and queering comics theory, Earle offers several vital readings and rereadings, demonstrating how misdirection can be a meaningful artistic practice. --Charles Hatfield Book Prize Awards Subcomittee

Author Information

Monalesia Earle is an independent researcher living and working in England. Her poetry, short stories and essays, have been published in various peer-reviewed journals and books.

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