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Coda
Where the book opened with a scene of archival destruction meant to ensure historical silence around socially prohibited interracial desire, I conclude with the digital photographer Roshini Kempadoo’s cover image...
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Afterword: ‘Thus have I politicly ended my reign’
It would seem that to edit a play gives one some kind of long-term investment in it. I edited The Taming of the Shrew as long ago as 1984, though Cambridge University Press allowed me to update my edition in 2003...
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Introduction
A decade ago materialist-feminist and historicist criticism of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew had reached something of an impasse. In 1996, summarising the fortunes of the shrew over the previous ten years...
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Afterword
Comparatively Queer heralds an ambitious intervention. The editors aim to queer comparative studies while destabilizing its Eurocentrism and to comparativize and decolonize queer studies while challenging its pre...
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Queer from the Very Beginning
The field of comparative literature has been the site of an intensifying struggle for both self-definition and validation. This struggle can best be observed in the dialogue in two collections of essays published...
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Map** Sapphic Modernity
In 1566, the Geneva publishing scion Henri II Estienne printed a scathing attack on modern morals known as the Apologie pour Hérodote. To crown his chapter “On the Sin of Sodomy, and the Sin Against Nature in Our...
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Time’s Corpus
At stake here is a dialogue between two minoritized historiographies—one in South Asian studies and the other in queer-sexuality studies—and their shared preoccupation with the responsibility of historical emerge...
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Universal Particularities
As the numerous anthologies devoted to issues of sexuality and globalization attest, “queerness is now global” (Cruz-Malavé and Manalansan 1).1 Self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) peopl...
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Introduction
In 1802, two French generals captured Toussaint Louverture, the black slave turned revolutionary leader, and made a significant archival discovery: they found among his belongings a box with a “false bottom,” whi...
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Shrews in Pamphlets and Plays
It is a commonplace that to read The Taming of the Shrew followed by Much Ado about Nothing is to witness the same author examining gender relationships in wholly different ways. According to one line of argument...
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Introduction
Welcome to Boob lit! The following chapters have some interesting information for you: Chapter 1 examines the three archetypes that influence Mexican women; Chapter 2 shows that Rosario Castellanos champions a...
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Postcards of Occupation
Domini can-American writer Nelly Rosario begins her 2002 novel Song of the Water Saints with an archival engagement: the opening scene stages a reenactment of the colonial postcard that pictures an unknown tropic...
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Engendering Shrews: Medieval to Early Modern
When Petruchio humiliates Katherine on their wedding day, her father Baptista identifies the feminine bearing of the central term in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew (1623): ‘[S]uch an injury would vex a saint, ...
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Asexuality and the Woman Writer: Queering a Compliant Castellanos
The previous pages have defended the raison d’être for gender studies, albeit in a pessimistic manner, by way of exploring the Sor Juana archetype. A second way to defend the need for gender studies is to look at...
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The Romance of Independence
Elizabeth Nunez’s Bruised Hibiscus (2000) opens by restaging a dramatic cover story that appeared in the local Trinidadian newspaper in 1954: a fisherman finds the body of a white woman washed ashore. Immediately...
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The Shrew as Editor/Editing Shrews
I recently had the somewhat dubious pleasure of watching a low-budget horror film from 1959 that is now considered a minor classic: The Killer Shrews. The film’s hero is a daring young sailor who lands on an isla...
