Epistemology of the closet
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Epistemology of the closet
(Penguin social sciences)
Penguin, 1994
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Note
First published in the U.S., 1990
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Looks at the central importance of the homosexual/heterosexual dichotomy in the Western culture of the last century, in particular by a series of provocative readings of Melville, Wilde, James and Proust. A book of both political and literary importance.
Table of Contents
- Epistemology of the closet
- some binarisms (1) - Billy Budd, after the homosexual
- some binarisms (2) - Wilde, Nietzche, and the sentimental relations of the male body
- the beast in the closet - James and the writing of homosexual panic
- Proust and the spectacle of the closet.
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