June Weekend Reads: Celebrating Pride Continues with eBooks
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Happy Pride Month from the Sprague Library! We’re dedicated to embracing and celebrating diversity here at Montclair State. This week’s eBook selection focuses on studies in LGBT+ literature, tracing its history through several specialized lenses.
The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Matt Richardson
“The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women’s literature that has heretofore been on the margins of literary scholarship and African diaspora cultural criticism. It argues that Black lesbian texts celebrate both the strategies of resistance used by queer Black subjects and the spaces for grieving the loss of queer Black subjects that dominant histories of the African diasporas often forget.”
Representing The Rainbow in Young Adult Literature: LGBTQ+ Content Since 1969 by Christine Jenkins
“This volume examines YA literature that features LGBTQ+ characters and themes. In addition to identifying titles that are notable either for their excellence or deficiencies, this resource also includes chapters on bisexual, transgender, and intersex issues and characters, as well as chapters on comics, graphic novels, and works of nonfiction.”
Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German by James Patrick Wilper
“In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”