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"The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories (Paperback)
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"The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories (Paperback)
Series: Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century
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"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century-the
century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various
taxonomized sexual identities) were invented-is the period when
American short stories were invented, and when they were the
queerest."-Christopher Looby, from the Introduction A man in
small-town America wears the clothing of his wife and sisters;
satisfied at last that he has "a perfect suit of garments
appropriate for my sex," he commits suicide, asking only that he be
buried dressed as a woman. A country maid has a passionate summer
relationship with an heiress, the memory of which sustains her for
the next forty years. A girl is carried by a strong wind to a place
where she discovers that everything is made of candy, including the
"queer people," whom she licks and eats. If these are not the kinds
of stories we expect to find in nineteenth-century American
literature, it is perhaps because we have been looking in the wrong
places. The stories gathered here are written by a diverse
assortment of writers-women and men, obscure and famous: Herman
Melville, Willa Cather, and Louisa May Alcott, among others.
Exploring the vagaries of gender identity, erotic desire, and
affectional attachments that do not map easily onto present
categories of sex and gender, they celebrate, mourn, and question
the different modes of embodiment and forgotten styles of pleasure
of nineteenth-century America.
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