Sexual Dissidence

2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-882706-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 682 g

Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this paradoxical position?

These are just some of the questions explored in this wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity. In the process it brilliantly links writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig. So Freud's theory of perversion is discovered to be more challenging than either his critics or his advocates usually allow, especially when approached via the earlier period's archetypal perverts, the religious heretic and the wayward woman, Satan and Eve.

The book further shows how the literature, histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. It includes chapters on transgression and its containment, contemporary theories of sexual difference, homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dollimore, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction to Second Edition

- Part 1. An Encounter

- 1: Wilde and Gide in Algiers

- Part 2. Perspectives

- 2: Some Parameters

- Part 3. Subjectivity, Transgression, and Deviant Desire

- 3: Becoming Authentic

- 4: Wilde's Transgressive Aesthetic and Contemporary Cultural Politics

- 5: Re-encounters

- Part 4. Transgression and its Containment

- 6: The Politics of Containment

- 7: Tragedy and Containment

- Part 5. Perversion's Lost Histories

- 8: Towards the Paradoxical Perverse and the Perverse Dynamic

- 9: Augustine: Perversion and Privation

- 10: Othello: Sexual Difference and Internal Deviation

- Part 6. Sexual: Perversion Pathology to Politics

- 11: Freud's Theory of Sexual Perversion

- 12: Deconstructing Freud

- 13: From the Polymorphous Perverse to the Perverse Dynamic

- 14: Perversion, Power, and Social Control

- 15: Thinking the Perverse Dynamic

- Part 7. Beleaguered Norms and Perverse Dynamics

- 16: Homophobia (1): Sexual/ Political Deviance

- 17: Homophobia (2): Theories of Sexual Difference

- Part 8. Transgressive Reinscriptions, Early Modern and Post-modern

- 18: Subjectivity and Transgression

- 19: Early Modern: Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England

- 20: Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility of the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity: Wilde, Genet, Orton, and Others

- Part 9. Beyond Sexual Difference

- 21: Desire and Difference

- Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Dollimore pioneered cultural materialism; then he pioneered gay studies. He subsequently turned his attention to a fresh interrogation of those dark, recalcitrant elements of desire and mortality which resist utopian transformation. His influential books include Radical Tragedy (1984), Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (1998), Sex Literature and Censorship (2001) and, with Alan Sinfield, Political Shakespeare (1985). Dollimore's most recent, path-breaking intervention is the powerfully personal Desire: a Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2017). Dollimore has held professorships at the Universities of Sussex and York, and he has lectured and taught throughout the world.