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A small boy and others : imitation and initiation in American culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol /

In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances, ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijins...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moon, Michael, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Colección:Series Q.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances, ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures. Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings. Moon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of "queerness." Rich in historical detail and insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of queer invention.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-192) and index.
ISBN:9780822396024
0822396025