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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Queer Slumming 1
Underworld Unknowing 1
The Hermeneutics of Sexual Suspicion 4
The Suspicion of Sexual Hermeneutics 13
Rotten Politics 20
Terra Incognita: Jane Addams, Philanthropic Slumming, and the Elusive Identity of Hull-House 25
Disappearing Acts 25
Spinster Panic 31
Queered Cosmopolitanism 39
Twenty Years in Cedarville 49
The Limbo of Forgotten Spectators 61
Willa Cather's Experiment in Luxury 67
Cather's Case History 67
In the Company of Tramps 74
Decadent Movements 79
The Miseries of Pittsburgh 83
Fairy Worlds 87
Slumming on Park Avenue 96
Capitalism and the Erasure of Gay Identity 100
"Slightly Known Territory": Renaissance Admixture and the So-Called Van Vechten School 104
A Caucasian Storms Harlem 104
The Signifying Slummer 111
Parties and Mixers 121
Friendship beyond Understanding 127
Nugent'sShtick 138
"Just a Case of Mixed Signs" 144
Antisapphic Modernism 150
Les mysteres de Djuna Barnes 150
Looking for Bohemia 156
Stephen Gordon's Slumming Tour 165
Lost in transition 173
Watchman, What of the Night? 177
Hidden from History 182
The Obscure Life 188
Epilogue: Secrets of the African-American Bisexual Man; or, Double Lives on the Down Low 193
Straight Outta Compton 193
Never Apologize, Never Explain 199
Undetectability 203
Beyond Subcultural Studies: A Manifesto 207
Notes 211
Works Cited 237
Index 265
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Eric Johnson
reviewed Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History on March 21, 2019 Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
I picked this up not for its literary analysis, but because of the type of queer theory it snuggled up with. This isn't really a pure theory book, but it should be! I was somewhat familiar with the Harlem Renaissance writers and Djuna Barnes, so I could follow the arguments. However, I found the most sustenance in the introduction and conclusion. While the text doesn't necessarily take a stand on trauma-porn poetry or other self-produced slummings or even identity politics, I took away the implicit message that making our queer lives sympathetic, transparent, legible, and friendly the outsiders isn't the only way to produce queer narratives. This academicy treatment takes a radical stand against fascism from the left -- the "I see you" instagrammy push toward community, pride, mainstream civil rights, homonormativity, etc. that drives me nutso. Where is the version of this perspective as pure theory? Leave comparative lit and dive into rhetoric, my contrary, bizzare friend!
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