文學理論/批評

Queer Burroughs
出版社： Palgrave (Macmillan's Global Academic Publishing)
書林書號：
00856348
作者：
Russell, Jamie
定價：
1006
會員價：
$956
ISBN：
0312239238
出版年份：
2001
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
272
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William S. Burroughs is consistently thought of as a novelist who is gay, rather than a gay novelist. This distinction is slight, yet remarkable, since it has meant that Burroughs has been excluded from the gay canon and from the scope of queer theory. In this intelligent book, Jamie Russell offers the first queer reading of Burroughs' novels. He explores how the novels of Burroughs can be seen as a sustained attempt to offer a very personal rethinking of gay subjectivity and as an attempt to overturn stereotypes of gay men as effeminate. Yet in his celebration and appropriation of some of the most violent, misogynistic, and effeminophobic elements of heterosexually-identified masculinity, Burroughs' life and writing suggest a subjectivity that has been deeply troubling to many in the gay community.
Jamie Russell is a lecturer in English and a freelance journalist. He lives in London.
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