This collection addresses the politics of queer representation in multiple contexts. Articles cover the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness alongside work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities; a transgender Israeli pop star; and film mimicry in Kerala, India.

Autorentext
THOMAS PEELE is Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University, USA, where he teaches graduate classes in cultural studies and rhetorical theory, and undergraduate classes in non-fiction writing and new media.

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Introduction; T.Peele Reading for It: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through Textual Experience; S.Liming New Queer White Trash Cinema; D.Cunningham Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic Representations of Queerness In Gangster Films; S.Mowlabocus Straight Shooters and Cowboy Codes: the Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World; Z.Trodd & C.Le Coney Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah's Arc; G.A.Yep & J.P.Elia Queer as Folk and the Spectacularisation of Gay Identity; G.Porfido Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture; A.Ziv Fashionably Femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style and Politics in The L Word; A.Dove-Viebahn All My (Queer) Children: Disrupting Daytime Desire in Pine Valley; C.Leaker Yaoi; M.McHarry Why (not) Queer?: Ambivalence about 'Politics' and Queer Identification in an Online Community in Taiwan; T.He Reading and Queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch; W.Hsu Ellen DeGeneres: Public Lesbian Number One; J.Reed Pushing the Boundaries of Basic Writing's Frontier: Using Media Representations of Gay Culture to Teach Basic Writers; L.Gray-Rosendale & K.Birnley From Lavender Jane Loves Women to Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: On the Uses of Queer Culture in the Interdisciplinary Classroom; D.DeMuth & S.Barnes