sexual implications of these two novels in studies of queer histories and queer temporalities, it is crucial, first, to clarify three transitional discourses of adolescence—romantic friendship, situational homosexuality, and coming out. Transitional
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Freak Temporality
Female Adolescence in the Novels of Carson McCullers
Alison Sperling
scholarship on McCullers’s work. But in this article I have also attempted to rethink queer temporality as it is experienced in and through non-normative bodies. While freak temporality clearly draws its theoretical foundation from theories of queer time, it
Who (the) Girls and Boys Are
Gender Nonconformity in Middle-Grade Fiction
Michele Byers
, as they mirror for us their potential futures in the present. These characters exist in queer temporalities in which their futures are imagined “according to logics that lie outside [of] those paradigmatic markers of life experience” ( Halberstam 2005