Homotopia?: Gay Identity, Sameness & the Politics of Desire

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Do opposites attract? Is desire lack? These assumptions have become so much a part of the ways in which we conceive desire that they are rarely questioned. Yet, what do they say about how homosexuality -- a desire for the same -- is viewed in our culture? This book takes as its starting point the ab...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kemp, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Software eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Brooklyn, NY : punctum books, 2015.
Subjects:
Gay men > Social life and customs.
Homosexuality.
Homosexuality
Homosexuels masculins > Mœurs et coutumes.
Homosexualité.
homosexuality.
Gay & Lesbian studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
Gay men > Social life and customs
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Refusals
  • Against custom : Andre Gide's pedagogic pederasty
  • No such things as homosexuals : Marcel Proust and 'la race maudite'
  • Beautiful flowers and perverse ruins : Edward Carpenter's Intermediate sex
  • A problem in gay heroics : John Addington Symonds and l'amour de l'impossible
  • Conclusion. Fear of a gay anus.

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