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Opacity and the Closet : Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol /

Opacity and the Closet interrogates the viability of the metaphor of "the closet" when applied to three important queer figures in postwar American and French culture: philosopher Michel Foucault, literary critic Roland Barthes, and pop artist Andy Warhol. Nicholas de Villiers proposes a n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Villiers, Nicholas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Opacities: queer strategies
  • Confessions of a masked philosopher: anonymity and identification in Foucault and Guibert
  • Matte figures: Roland Barthes's ethics of meaning
  • "What do you have to say for yourself?" Warhol's opacity
  • Unseen Warhol/seeing Barthes
  • Andy Warhol up-tight: Warhol's effects
  • Conclusion: The interview as multi-mediated object.