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Zusatztext In Lost Causes, Valerie Rohy brilliantly deconstructs a long tradition of gay etiology, not to ask the usual illogical questions about the causes of homosexuality, but to ask why we ask and how we ask. She offers us a refreshing new way to read those great novels of gay origins-all those pictures of Dorian Gray and those wells of loneliness, which are more elusive than we often think. Informationen zum Autor Val Rohy is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality (SUNY Press, 2009) and Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (Cornell University Press, 2000). Klappentext Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology - that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, "recruitment," or biology. Zusammenfassung Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology -- that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, "recruitment," or biology.
