Lost Causes - Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory

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.

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• Authors: Valerie Rohy, Valerie (Professor of English Rohy, Rohy Valerie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2014
• EAN: 9780199340194
• ISBN: 978-0-19-934019-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Cultural Studies, English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans), Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gay & Lesbian studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Civics and citizenship, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics