Vishnu Become Mohini
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Category: Historical Fiction
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The Sworn Virgin: A Novel
Dukes’s gripping historical novel tells the tale of a desperate Albanian woman who will do whatever it takes to keep her independence and seize control of her future…even if it means swearing to remain a virgin for her entire life. When eighteen-year-old Eleanora’s father is shot dead on the cobblestone streets of 1910 Albania, Eleanora…
Biography Fiction Historical Fiction
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel
Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid…
Drama Fiction Historical Fiction
The Human Zoo
A blistering new novel that follows a Filipino American journalist’s return to dictatorship-ruled Manila to research her book on tribes from a “cracklingly original” (Elle) and “singular” (New York Times Book Review) author, PEN Faulkner award-winner, Sabina Murray. Filipino-American Christina “Ting” Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape her imminent…
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Sketchtasy
Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart—it’s an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-‘90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting…
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The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius’ Achilleid
As we follow Achilles’ metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, Statius brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behavior: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth of Achilles on Scyros within a…
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Orlando: A Biography
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. Inspired by novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf’s lover, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to…
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Woolf’s Orlando and the Resonances of Trans Studies
Starting in the 1990’s, feminist and queer scholars frequently cited Woolf’s Orlando as an example of the potential of modernist experimentation to open up a space for the elliptical articulation of fluid genders and desires. This reading finds its best evidence in Orlando’s cross-dressed erotic pursuits. However, the text’s popularity has been on the wane…
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Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit
Did you know that in medieval French folklore a person might change sex by passing under a rainbow? Or that same-sex unions have been celebrated by peoples of the ancient Mediterranean, Africa, China, and indigenous America? Or that Sappho, da Vinci, Emily Dickinson, Nijinsky, Benjamin Britten, Mishima, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Boy George,…
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Berdache
The shaman “Lizard” is one of the two-souled-ones, a Berdache. He must convince his proud and stubborn childhood friend, the warrior Red Wolf, that he, too, is a Berdache and must take the shaman training, before Red Wolf loses his mind. A call for aid comes, so the Berdache, Red Wolf, and the beautiful Chickasaw…