Imagining gay paradise : Bali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore /

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Mages of Manhood asks the question: How have gay/queer men in Southeast Asia used images of paradise to construct homes for themselves and for the different ideas of manhood they represent? The book examines how three gay men in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore have deployed different ideas of "par...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Atkins, Gary, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hong Kong : London : Hong Kong University Press ; Eurospan [distributor], 2012.
Subjects:
Spies, Walter > Influence.
Koe, Stuart > Influence.
Khun Toc > Influence.
Spies, Walter.
Gay men > Southeast Asia > Social conditions.
Homosexuality and art.
Paradise in art.
Homosexuels masculins > Asie du Sud-Est > Conditions sociales.
Homosexualité et art.
Paradis dans l'art.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Civilization > Western influences.
Gay men > Social conditions.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Gay Asians.
Bali (Indonesia : Province) > In art.
Thailand > Civilization > Western influences.
Bali (Indonésie : Province) > Dans l'art.
Indonesia > Bali (Province)
Southeast Asia.
Thailand.
Electronic books.
Art.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. At the end of empires
  • ch. 1. The triple supremacy
  • ch. 2. The problem with home (1)
  • ch. 3. Men of the feast : Saranrom
  • ch. 4. The escape from Nosferatu
  • ch. 5. A new man for Siam
  • ch. 6. Magical reality, running amok
  • ch. 7. Men of the dance
  • ch. 8. The triple taboo
  • ch. 9. A pivotal year
  • ch. 10. A final chord
  • ch. 11. Dancing with Ezekiel
  • ch. 12. Transition : a murder for paradise
  • pt. 2. The hope for a better age
  • ch. 13. Nanyang family
  • ch. 14. Men of the feast : Babylon
  • ch. 15. The problem with home (2)
  • ch. 16. A new man for Thailand
  • ch. 17. Men of the Net
  • ch. 18. A pivotal day
  • ch. 19. Dancing under the merlion
  • ch. 20. A new nation
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.

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