A lively look at how queer artists turn everyday culture into surprising sites of humor, insight, and creative possibilityWhat happens when we take things literally? In Literally: The Queerness of Things Just as They Are, Michael P. Bibler argues that the literal, so often dismissed as obvious or unremarkable, has been a powerful and playful tool in queer cultural production. Examining music, literature, film, and visual art from the 1980s to the present, ...

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general.The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refutes standard binary thinking—First World/Third World, self/other...