Homotopia?: Gay Identity, Sameness & the Politics of Desire

Do opposites attract? Is desire lack? These assumptions have become so much a part of the ways in which we conceive desire that they are rarely questioned. Yet, what do they say about how homosexuality -- a desire for the same --

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kemp, Jonathan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2015, 2015
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Refusals
  • Against custom : Andre Gide's pedagogic pederasty
  • No such things as homosexuals : Marcel Proust and 'la race maudite'
  • Beautiful flowers and perverse ruins : Edward Carpenter's Intermediate sex
  • A problem in gay heroics : John Addington Symonds and l'amour de l'impossible
  • Conclusion. Fear of a gay anus