Queer Writing - Homoeroticism in Jean Genet''s Fiction

Informationen zum Autor ELIZABETH STEPHENS is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia. Klappentext Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand homosexual literature! not as the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but as the mobilization of a perverse dynamic within the text. Zusammenfassung Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand homosexual literature! not as the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but as the mobilization of a perverse dynamic within the text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Translations and Editions Abbreviations  Introduction What Remains of the Author: The Subject in/of Writing Un Chant d'amour: Homoeroticism and the Closet of Language Seminal Economies: The Homoerotics of Phallic Masculinity Towards an écriture homosexuelle Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: E Stephens, E. Stephens, Elizabeth Stephens
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2009
• EAN: 9780230205857
• ISBN: 978-0-230-20585-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, fiction;language;work;writing