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.
Table of Content
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
About the author
CALVIN THOMAS is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9780230611856 ● File size 2.2 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4991490 ● Copy protection Social DRM