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43 - “Flung out of space”

Class and Sexuality in American Literary History

from How to Recognize the Queer Past before (and during) the Advent of Medicalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2024

Benjamin Kahan
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Louisiana State University
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“’Flung out of Space’: Class and Sexuality in American Literary History" explores the relationship between class and queer sexuality in American literary history, suggesting how neither of these histories can be understood without accounting for the other. Reading literary texts such as Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt and Richard Bruce Nugent’s “Smoke, Lilies and Jade” alongside queer theory and LGBTQ history, Lecklider suggests how class structures queer literature throughout American history, particularly since the 19th century. Particularly emphasizing how labor structures desire, this chapter argues that working-class sexualities – and their intersections with race and gender – must be taken seriously in order to fully appreciate both the contributions of queer literature and the legibility of labor in American history.

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Print publication year: 2024

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