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Strategies of Deviance Studies in Gay Male Representation

by Earl Jackson

ISBN13: 9780253209504
ISBN10: 0253209501

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Trade Paperback

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"Juxtaposing the narrative strategies of Freud, Wilde and Jarman; film pornography and Almodovar; and Dennis Cooper, Robert Glück and Kevin Killian, Jackson offers a delightfully intelligent and inventive reappraisal of key issues in gay representation." --Gay Times

"A major event in gay cultural theory.... the feat of critical imagination is absolutely stunning in its scope and power. [This book] will be definitive in laying out the issues for subsequent writers in gay theory." --David M. Halperin

Earl Jackson examines visual and narrative texts from a variety of genres, including case histories, pornography, science fiction, and experimental prose.

Description

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-317) and index.

About the Author

EARL M. JACKSON, JR. is an Associate Professor and teaches in the literature program and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

1. Calling the Questions: Gay male Subjectivity and Agency

2. History and Its Desublimations

3. Imagining It Otherwise: Alternative Sexualities in Speculative Fiction

4. Graphic Specularity

5. Scandalous Narratives

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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780253209504
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 09/01/1995
Publisher:: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series info:: Theories of Representation & Difference
Pages:: 336
Height:: 9.24 in.
Width:: 6.17 in.
Thickness:: .88 in.
Series:: Theories of Representation & Difference
Number of Units:: 1
Series Volume:: no. H-465
UPC Code:: 2800253209506
Author:: Jr. Earl Jackson
Author:: Earl Jackson
Subject:: Gays
Subject:: Homosexuality in literature
Subject:: Identity
Subject:: Gay and Lesbian-General
Subject:: Gay men
Subject:: Homosexuality, male
Subject:: Homosexuality
Subject:: Gay men -- Psychology.
Subject:: Male homosexuality
Subject:: Homosexuality in motion pictures
Subject:: Psychology