Sexual Dissidence
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 June 2020
- ISBN 9780198827061
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages452 pages
- Size 231x151x24 mm
- Weight 654 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 line drawing 23
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Short description:
A wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig.
MoreLong description:
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.
Review from previous edition Appears well placed to make an influential intervention in cultural theory on both sides of the Atlantic....A carefully argued, thought-provoking book that makes fascinating connections among different kinds of discourse while carrying an affective punch far beyond the academic routine
Table of Contents:
Introduction to Second Edition
Part 1. An Encounter
Wilde and Gide in Algiers
Part 2. Perspectives
Some Parameters
Part 3. Subjectivity, Transgression, and Deviant Desire
Becoming Authentic
Wilde's Transgressive Aesthetic and Contemporary Cultural Politics
Re-encounters
Part 4. Transgression and its Containment
The Politics of Containment
Tragedy and Containment
Part 5. Perversion's Lost Histories
Towards the Paradoxical Perverse and the Perverse Dynamic
Augustine: Perversion and Privation
Othello: Sexual Difference and Internal Deviation
Part 6. Sexual: Perversion Pathology to Politics
Freud's Theory of Sexual Perversion
Deconstructing Freud
From the Polymorphous Perverse to the Perverse Dynamic
Perversion, Power, and Social Control
Thinking the Perverse Dynamic
Part 7. Beleaguered Norms and Perverse Dynamics
Homophobia (1): Sexual/ Political Deviance
Homophobia (2): Theories of Sexual Difference
Part 8. Transgressive Reinscriptions, Early Modern and Post-modern
Subjectivity and Transgression
Early Modern: Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England
Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility of the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity: Wilde, Genet, Orton, and Others
Part 9. Beyond Sexual Difference
Desire and Difference
Afterword
