Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film.



Autorentext
CALVIN THOMAS is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA.

Inhalt
Abject (without) Apologies Beginning with a Bit of (be)hindsight. . . Re-enfleshing the Bright Boys; or, How Male Bodies Might Matter to Feminist Theory Must Desire Be Taken Literally? Cultural Droppings: On Bersani and Beckett 'Is What You Want Something You Can Discuss?' 'It's No Longer Your Film': Abjection and (the) Mulholland (death) Drive
Titel
Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory
Untertitel
Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film
EAN
9780230611856
ISBN
978-0-230-61185-6
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
12.05.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
2.11 MB
Anzahl Seiten
224
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch