Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Synchronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Part II Diachronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Queer Genre
- Race and the Politics of Queer and Trans Representation
- Space and the Regional Imaginary of Queer Literature
- 33 Queer Southern Literature and the Dirty South
- 34 Queer DiaspoRican Circuits
- 35 “where sadness makes sense”
- 36 Queer New England Regionalism
- 37 Queer Beginnings at the End of the Frontier
- 38 Queer American Literature in the World
- Part III Queer Methods
- Index
37 - Queer Beginnings at the End of the Frontier
Asia and the Pacific in the Making of a Modern Gay American Identity
from Space and the Regional Imaginary of Queer Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2024
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Synchronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Part II Diachronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Queer Genre
- Race and the Politics of Queer and Trans Representation
- Space and the Regional Imaginary of Queer Literature
- 33 Queer Southern Literature and the Dirty South
- 34 Queer DiaspoRican Circuits
- 35 “where sadness makes sense”
- 36 Queer New England Regionalism
- 37 Queer Beginnings at the End of the Frontier
- 38 Queer American Literature in the World
- Part III Queer Methods
- Index
Summary
At the turn of the century as the western frontier came to a close, America expanded its reach across the Pacific and in so doing solidified a burgeoning modern gay identity steeped in imaginations of the “Orient.” Pacific Islanders and Asian immigrants themselves in fact played a crucial role by illustrating a different way of being to western writers such as Joaquin Miller and Charles Warren Stoddard, even as they were appropriated in bohemians’ explorations of their own same-sex sexuality.
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- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature , pp. 672 - 684Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024