Artful Seduction: Homosexuality and the Problematics of Exile

ISBN-13: 9781900755863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 252 str.

Karl Posso

Opis

The controversial works of Brazilian authors Silviano Santiago (1936-) and Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-96) offer distinctive but complementary explorations of male homosexual subjectivities formulated through displacement, exile and the abject. This is the first study to examine the innovative ways in which these writers stage-manage Western poststructuralist thought to critique heterosexist exclusion in Brazil and in globalized popular and folk culture. Synthesizing French critical thought and American queer theory, Posso explains how the two authors draw on diverse cultural productions and art works, including jazz improvisation, Robert Mapplethorpe's photography, and Alain Robbe-Grillet's screenplays, to extend a general undermining of oppositional logic and psychoanalytic theory.
Karl Posso is a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: The Ambiguous Art of Vanishing: Abjection and Undecidable Homosexuality in Stella Manhattan; 2: ‘Autumn Leaves’: Deciduous Signification and Homosexual Exile; 3: ‘Bem longe de Marienbad’: The Masochistic Dislocation of Homosexual (Dis)satisfaction; 4: ‘There’s no place like home’: Writing Off the Domus in Onde andará Dulce Veiga?; Conclusion

O autorze

Karl Posso