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Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender(Children's Literature Association Series)

Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender(Children's Literature Association Series)


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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 exploited 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.

About the Author :
Tison Pugh is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is author or editor of over twenty books, including Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling’s Fantasies and Other Fictions; The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom; and Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature.

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[A] thoughtful exploration of trans and queer themes in children's literature, tempered by Pugh's
acknowledgment of the incongruity of applying 21st-century theories of gender and sexuality to
books written in the early 20th century. . . . Pugh's detailed analys1is of Baum's writing provides much to think about and consider.--P. J. Kurtz "CHOICE" Queer Oz will be an extremely valuable and frequently used book on Baum and his representation of gender and sexuality.--Eric L. Tribunella, coeditor of A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781496845313
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: Children's Literature Association Series
  • Sub Title: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1496845315
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 566 gr


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