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Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

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https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #ComptonMackenzie #Queer #QueerLit #QueerHistory #JMBarrie

Studies of queer temporality, both in Scottish literature & more generally, have emphasised the importance of non-linear time & questions of futurity. Scottish texts of the 1920s, however, present a different view, where the rejection of compulsory heterosexuality, at the very least, is historically situated. J. M. Barrie’s Mary Rose (1920) juxtaposes multiple timelines to suggest the possibility of rejecting traditional family & gender relations, while Compton Mackenzie’s two portraits of queer life on Capri, Vestal Fire (1927) & Extraordinary Women (1928), present the international community there as located firmly in the past. Both authors specifically posit islands, real or fictional, as places of transformation & exploration. Islands not only have their own time, but a unique relation to questions of sexuality. While Barrie & Mackenzie’s texts, when discussed at all, are seen as fundamentally conservative & predominantly read in relation to the authors’ biographies, this article suggests that their overlooked status in current conversations about queer literature & history is itself productive. In both geographic & historical setting the works emphasise peripherality & non-integration. They are, following Lauren Berlant’s recent work, inconvenient texts, & texts about inconvenience. Taking such texts seriously, & emphasising the value of literature, & lives, that remain outliers, demonstrates new interpretive possibilities for the study of queer Scottish literature.

This is one of the most delightfully absurd books I've ever read. Recommended for those who like books that play with form, break rules, go all meta, etc. Publisher (punctum books) is non-profit and open access, ebook is available as a free download.

'The Diary of Anna Comnena, or The Very Political Adventures of a Transgender Byzantine Princess in African Elevators' by Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart (2024)

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-diary-of-anna-comnena-or-the-very-political-adventures-of-a-transgender-byzantine-princess-in-african-elevators/

#bookstodon #TisKaoruZamlerCarhart #QueerLit #SpeculativeFiction

Continuing the adventure that is taking my partner around Manchester we have ended up in.........

A bookshop.

Ok, not just a bookshop. It's the QueerLit cafe/bar/bookshop.

I've already said that I'd pay for several books as an early Xmas present, but even then she can't decide which books not to buy.

#Manchester #QueerLit

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Mòran taing dha na bàird uile a bha an sàs san tachartas seo a-nochd! Bha e cho math fàilte a chur air Ray is farsaingeachd saothrach a chluinntinn.

Thanks to all the poets that we're involved in this event, tonight! It was great to welcome Ray and hear such a diversity of work.

https://www.youtube.com/live/bYypTXPBKko?si=Zre0jvDzcniW1s1e

#DiasporaLit #DiasporaPoetry #ScotLit #IrishLit #ScottishPoetry #IrishPoetry #AfricanPoetry #WritersOfColour #PoetsOfColour #IrishDiaspora #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #ScotsLeid #QueerLit

It's Trans Awareness Month, and trans people are under siege. So we're fighting back, and you can help!

Grab these 32 stories of Trans People Taking On The World, by mainly trans authors

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$35 for 32 books is a great deal!

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Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio
32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson.

The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson
What Lies Within, Issy Waldon
Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton
Non-Player Character, Veo Corva
A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson
Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance
A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle
My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek
Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider
The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar
The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud
The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra
The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross
Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell
Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood
Echo Sight, Cian Verath
The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross
Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver
Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide
Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan
Manipulators War, Elise Carlson
Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans
Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null
All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire
1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com
First Rose, Jake Vanguard
A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger
Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates
Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo
Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis
Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault
Illusory, M.X. Misfits

Headlining the event is one of Africa's most widely published and celebrated authors, Ray Anyasi (Nigeria), alongside Ceitidh Campbell (Scotland), Anton Floyd (Ireland), Laura T. Fyfe (Scotland), Michele Hodkn (USA), Victoria MacIver (Scotland), Spike Munro (Scotland), and Babs NicGriogair (Scotland).

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Year of Queer Lit BookBlast – ONLY TODAY! 🎉 📚 🏳️‍🌈

Find my #contemporary #LGBT #LGBTQIA #trans #transgender #lesbian #lesfic #sapphic #ff #wlw #womenlovewomen #romance #novel The Awakening of the Butterfly in the #sale: ✍️ 📖 🦋

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Let’s celebrate #queer #literature! 🤩 🥳 🌈

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#romantic #book #fiction
#queerbooks #queernovels #queerfiction

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Btw: It will include over 300 #books!
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And you can find my #trans #lesbian #book The Awakening of the Butterfly in the sale, too. ✍️ 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

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Btw: It will include over 300 books!
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My SIGNED copy of C. M. Alongi’s upcoming novel “Heart of Iron” arrived today! I’m very excited to have it on paper, even though I already read a digital advanced copy.

This is the story of how Violet, AKA the Iron Witch AKA the Traitor Princess (who has settled in the mortal realm running a coffee shop called CaFae Latte) has her past come back to visit her, and the humans and other beings she’s helped and befriended in the mortal realm team up to save her, even as one of them—the newly-sober newly-released-from-prison baker—is framed.

I’m like 99% sure every “good guy” in this book is queer.

“Heart of Iron” will be released Oct 7.

#CMAlongi #book #FSF #fantasy #modernFantasy #fae #faeries #fairies #CaFaeLatte #queerBooks #queerFantasy #queerLit #queer

Brunette woman smiles holding a book whose cover is graced with a purple-haired, sword-wielding fairy in a brown apron and black baseball cap. The fairy wears gold jewelry, and the artwork has flowers like from a medieval manuscript. The human holding it has a shirt that says “I don’t care how you were raised, unlearn that shit.”

This week on #PrideConnection, we get together with some friends to talk favorite queer-affirming books and other media. Need summer reading recs? Look, or listen, no further. https://pride-connection.pinecast.co/episode/236cf891/pride-connection-presents-affirming-books-media #Blind #LGBTQ #Podcast #BookRecs #QueerLit #QueerMedia

Meine Belegexemplare der @queerwelten 14 sind heute angekommen 😍

Ich weiß gar nicht, ob das hier für euch von Interesse ist, aber ich würde ja gern ein Exemplar an eine interessierte Person verschenken.

Wenn ihr mitmachen wollt schreibt mir hier welche Repräsentation ihr euch in Büchern, Filmen, … öfter wünschen würdet. Unter allen die teilnehmen möchten verlose ich am 15.8. eines meiner Exemplare.

#giveaway #verlosung #queerlit #queerwelten14

Das Bild zeigt mehrere Kopien der Publikation "QUEER* WELTEN 14" auf einer Holzoberfläche. Die Cover zeigen lebendige Kunstwerke, die eine Figur mit blauer Haut, Brille, einem rosa Haarschatten und großen schwarzen Flügeln darstellen, die eine rosa Blume in der Hand hält.

The Muse Happens community is now open! Get a 5% discount on all books and unlock two chapters (one for each serial story) monthly! Plus read all back chapters. Free to join!

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