Queer Oz L Frank Baum Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender 1st Edition by Tison Pugh ISBN 9781496845337 1496845331

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ISBN 10: 1496845331
ISBN 13: 9781496845337
Author: Tison Pugh

Regardless of his own sexual orientation, L. Frank Baum’s fictions revel in queer, trans, and other transgressive themes. Baum’s life in the late 1800s and early 1900s coincided with the rise of sexology in the Western world, as a cascade of studies heightened awareness of the complexity of human sexuality. His years of productivity also coincided with the rise of children’s literature as a unique field of artistic creation. Best known for his Oz series, Baum produced a staggering number of children’s and juvenile book series under male and female pseudonyms, including the Boy Fortune Hunters series, the Aunt Jane’s Nieces series, and the Mary Louise series, along with many miscellaneous tales for young readers.

Baum envisioned his fantasy works as progressive fictions, aspiring to create in the Oz series “a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.” In line with these progressive aspirations, his works are often sexually progressive as well, with surprisingly queer and trans touches that reject the standard fairy-tale narrative path toward love and marriage. From Ozma of Oz’s backstory as a boy named Tip to the genderless character Chick the Cherub, from the homosocial adventures of his Boy Fortune Hunters to the determined rejection of romance for Aunt Jane’s Nieces, Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum’s Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender shows how Baum utilized the freedoms of children’s literature, in its carnivalesque celebration of a world turned upside-down, to reimagine the meanings of gender and sexuality in early twentieth-century America and to re-envision them for the future.

Queer Oz L Frank Baum Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1. L. Frank Baum’s “Progressive Fairies” and the Queerness of Children’s Literature

Chapter 2. Trans Tales of Oz and Elsewhere

Chapter 3. Queer Eroticisms in Oz and Elsewhere

Chapter 4. The Queer Creatures of Oz and Elsewhere Eat One Another

Chapter 5. John R. Neill: Illustrator (and Author) of L. Frank Baum’s Queer Oz and Elsewhere

Chapter 6. Cultural Projection, Homosocial Adventuring, and the Queer Conclusions of Floyd Akers’s Boy Fortune Hunters Series

Chapter 7. Gender, Genres, and the Queer Family Romance of Edith Van Dyne’s Aunt Jane’s Nieces Series

Conclusion: Queer Ethics and Baum’s Prejudices

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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