- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Invitations to Welty’s “Mountain of Meaning”
- Some Notes on Teaching Welty
- Introductions to Welty
- Teaching the Art of Welty’s Letters
- How She Wrote and How We Read
- Teaching Welty’s Narrative Strategies in <i>Delta Wedding</i>
- II New Perspectives on Welty and the US South
- Teaching Welty’s <i>A Curtain of Green</i> in an American Studies Freshman Seminar
- Matters of Life and Death
- Indigenizing Welty
- Taking <i>The Wide Net</i> to the Waters of <i>La Frontera</i> along Eudora Welty’s Natchez Trace
- III “Lifting the Veil”: Teaching Welty and African American Identity
- Teaching “A Curtain” in the Thick of Things
- The Matter of Black Lives in American Literature
- “Powerhouse” and the Challenge of African American Representation
- “We Must Have Your History, You Know”
- IV “Learning to See”: Bodies in Welty’s Texts
- Picturing Difference and Disability in Our Classrooms
- Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom
- Loch of the Rape
- Welty’s Place in the Undergraduate Theory Classroom
- V Worldly Welty: International and Transcultural Contexts
- Teaching Welty and/in Modernism
- Post Southern and International
- Umbrellas and Bottles
- Transcontinental Welty
- VI Teaching Welty in Our Writing Classrooms
- Finding the Freshman Voice
- “He Going to Last”
- How I Teach “Livvie” in Welty’s Home County
- “Something Beautiful, Something Frightening”
- “A Worn Path” in the Creative Writing Classroom
- VII Casting Wider Nets: New Interdisciplinary Contexts for Teaching Welty
- Teaching Welty in Dialogue with Other Artists in a Social Justice Course
- Using “A Worn Path” to Explore Contemporary Health Disparities in a Service-Learning Course
- Folk and Fairy Tales, Opera, and YouTube
- Teaching Welty to Future Teachers
- Finding Hope
- Resources for Teachers and Students
- About the Contributors
- Index
Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom
Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom
- Chapter:
- (p.109) Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom
- Source:
- Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty
- Author(s):
Gary Richards
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This essay details how Welty’s “The Wide Net” and “Why I Live at the P.O.” allow for nuanced explorations of male homosociality and queer male bodies in college classrooms. Unlike “Music from Spain,” which, despite its focus on male same-sex desire, is a problematic text, these two earlier stories have marked early- to mid-twentieth-century settings in the small-town South and allow students to refine their thinking about sexuality within a specifically regional context. In particular, “The Wide Net” is a hymn to male homosociality that Welty juxtaposes against heterosexual marriage and procreation. The story also invites readers to consider biographical contexts, especially concerning Welty’s relationship with John Fraiser Robinson. Similarly, “Why I Live at the P.O.” allows students to read the cross-dressing Uncle Rondo as a queer male body and invites discussion and definition of cross-dressing, fetishism, transvestism, transsexual identity and embodiment, and other trans issues.
Keywords: "The Wide Net", "Why I Live at the P.O.", male homosociality, queer, cross-dressing
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Invitations to Welty’s “Mountain of Meaning”
- Some Notes on Teaching Welty
- Introductions to Welty
- Teaching the Art of Welty’s Letters
- How She Wrote and How We Read
- Teaching Welty’s Narrative Strategies in <i>Delta Wedding</i>
- II New Perspectives on Welty and the US South
- Teaching Welty’s <i>A Curtain of Green</i> in an American Studies Freshman Seminar
- Matters of Life and Death
- Indigenizing Welty
- Taking <i>The Wide Net</i> to the Waters of <i>La Frontera</i> along Eudora Welty’s Natchez Trace
- III “Lifting the Veil”: Teaching Welty and African American Identity
- Teaching “A Curtain” in the Thick of Things
- The Matter of Black Lives in American Literature
- “Powerhouse” and the Challenge of African American Representation
- “We Must Have Your History, You Know”
- IV “Learning to See”: Bodies in Welty’s Texts
- Picturing Difference and Disability in Our Classrooms
- Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom
- Loch of the Rape
- Welty’s Place in the Undergraduate Theory Classroom
- V Worldly Welty: International and Transcultural Contexts
- Teaching Welty and/in Modernism
- Post Southern and International
- Umbrellas and Bottles
- Transcontinental Welty
- VI Teaching Welty in Our Writing Classrooms
- Finding the Freshman Voice
- “He Going to Last”
- How I Teach “Livvie” in Welty’s Home County
- “Something Beautiful, Something Frightening”
- “A Worn Path” in the Creative Writing Classroom
- VII Casting Wider Nets: New Interdisciplinary Contexts for Teaching Welty
- Teaching Welty in Dialogue with Other Artists in a Social Justice Course
- Using “A Worn Path” to Explore Contemporary Health Disparities in a Service-Learning Course
- Folk and Fairy Tales, Opera, and YouTube
- Teaching Welty to Future Teachers
- Finding Hope
- Resources for Teachers and Students
- About the Contributors
- Index
