Exposures by Basiuk, Tomasz;

American Gay Men's Life Writing since Stonewall

Series: Gdansk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture; 4;

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Publisher Peter Lang
Date of Publication 1 January 2013

ISBN 9783631634219
Binding Hardback
No. of pages398 pages
Size 31x148x210 mm
Weight 610 g
Language English

Short description:

Exposures emphasizes the critical self-reflexivity and the personal and artistic risks characterizing gay male life writing. Focusing on more than a dozen authors, it calls on critical work by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and by Jacques Ranci?re, and addresses the debates within queer theory about the antisocial turn and Tomkins's affect theory.

Long description:

The diversity of gay men's life writing since the Stonewall Inn riots is not limited to the coming-out story. Memoirs, personal essays, fictionalized autobiographies, and other forms of life writing witnessing to gay experience adopt many narrative paradigms and are profoundly self-reflexive about how they construct gay male identity. Exposures emphasizes both this critical perspective and the risk-taking, personal as much as artistic, assumed by gay male autobiographers. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writings on shame, inspired by Silvan Tomkins's affect theory, are an important point of reference. So is the political thought of Jacques Ranci?re, whose concept of the distribution of the sensible is called upon to describe the politico-aesthetic work, performed by gay male life writing.