Sexual DissidenceOxford University Press, 20 sept 2018 - 512 páginas Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this paradoxical position? These are just some of the questions explored in this wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity. In the process it brilliantly links writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig. So Freud's theory of perversion is discovered to be more challenging than either his critics or his advocates usually allow, especially when approached via the earlier period's archetypal perverts, the religious heretic and the wayward woman, Satan and Eve. The book further shows how the literature, histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. It includes chapters on transgression and its containment, contemporary theories of sexual difference, homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race. |
Índice
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An Encounter | 29 |
Perspectives | 49 |
SubjectivityTransgression and Deviant Desire | 67 |
Transgression and its Containment | 111 |
Perversions Lost Histories | 133 |
Sexual Perversion Pathology to Politics | 201 |
Beleaguered Norms and Perverse Dynamics | 269 |
Transgressive Reinscriptions Early Modern and Postmodern | 317 |
Beyond Sexual Difference | 369 |
Afterword | 400 |
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425 | |
435 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault Jonathan Dollimore Vista previa restringida - 1991 |
Términos y frases comunes
André Gide androgyny argued Augustine authentic becomes binary Black challenge Chapter civilization complex concept contemporary contradiction critical critique crucial culture D. H. Lawrence deconstruction deviation disavowal discourse displacement dominant early modern effect emphasis especially essential essentialist evil fact Fanon fear female Foucault Freud Freudian gender Genet Gide Gide's heterosexual Hic Mulier Hocquenghem homo homophobia homosexual desire homosexuality homosocial human identified identity ideology important inseparable instincts inversion involves Jean Genet kind lesbian liberation male masculinity metaphysical misogyny moral nature never Nietzsche normative Oedipus complex once opposite oppression Oscar Wilde Othello paradox perverse dynamic political polymorphous perverse post/modern potential psychic psychoanalysis psychosexual radical relation remains remarks repression repudiation revealing says sense sexual difference sexual perversion significant social order society sodomy soul sublimation subordinate subversion suggests theory things transgressive aesthetic transgressive reinscription transvestism transvestite unnatural Wilde's woman women writing