Of captive queens and holy panthers : prison fiction and male homoerotic experience
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Of captive queens and holy panthers : prison fiction and male homoerotic experience
(Europäische Hochschulschriften = Publications universitaires européennes = European university studies, ser. 14 . Anglo-Saxon language and literature = Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur = Langue et littérature anglo-saxonnes ; v. 194)
P. Lang, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-223) and index
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Description
Prison eroticism can by no means be reduced to decadent phenomena such as transvestism, prostitution and gang rape. On the contrary, the homoerotic subject-matter in fiction is often accompanied by an astonishingly transcendental vision of the prison - comparable with the Dostoevskyan conception that Man is forever in solitary confinement unless he can reach his fellow-prisoner. It is Everyman who is thrown into a radically novel environment, must cope with it, and often has to reconsider his original self- definition as an erotic human being.
Table of Contents
Contents: Hustlers, Pimps, and Slaves - The Absurd Homosexual Hero - Scapegoat and Martyr - The Pink Triangle - Love: Phisical, Emotional, Spiritual.
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