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In love with a handsome sailor : the emergence of gay identity and the novels of Pierre Loti /

Writing at first anonymously and later under the pen name Pierre Loti, French author Julien Viaud (1850-1923) produced a series of fictions that sympathetically portrayed male same-sex desire and its accompanying societal conflicts. Due to the constraints of the time, Viaud had to develop various st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berrong, Richard M., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Colección:University of Toronto romance series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Was Julien Viaud Gay? An examination of the evidence
  • Contextualized suggestion and ambiguity: Aziyadé
  • Discovering a fuller range of sexuality: the marriage of Loti
  • A plea for sexual understanding: the story of a Spahi
  • Man (men?) in love: my brother yes
  • Different contexts, different sexualities: Iceland fisherman
  • The origin of sexual ambiguity in the Madame Butterfly legend: Madame Chrysanthemum
  • A proustian probing into childhood and the beginnings of sexuality: the story of a child
  • Works of self-doubt: a phantom from the East and sailor
  • Creating the allegorical gay novel: Ramuntcho
  • A defence of homosexuals and a consciousness raising: The Awakened.