Reading from Behind : A Cultural Analysis of the Anus

ISBN-13: 9781783607549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 259 str.

Jonathan A Allan

Opis

A staggeringly unique and insightful exploration of the anus, challenging us to move away from paranoid phallocentric critical examination, towards inclusion.

Recenzje

'Allan's work is, in a sense, groundbreaking ... opening up a whole new field of study ... Allan's book should be required reading.'
The Independent

'A serious work of theory, exploring the backside as a site of humiliation and disgust.'
The Guardian

'Assholes are like opinions: Everyone has them - but no one has more opinions on assholes than Jonathan Allan.'
VICE

'Jonathan Allan has come up with a whole theory of the arsehole.'
Dazed and Confused

'Looks at the subject of the 'booty' with remarkable enthusiasm.'
Attitude

'Entertaining and informative.'
Merrill Cole, author of The Other Orpheus: A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality

'A remarkably fresh and original contribution to contemporary queer studies. I am confident that, with Reading from Behind, Allan will emerge as a widely respected critical voice of his generation.'
David William Foster, author of Sexual Textualties: Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing

'Allan reorients studies of anality.'
Todd Reeser, author of Masculinities in Theory

'Readers outside the academy will be rewarded with a fine example of textual analysis-and, possibly, a new appreciation of the anus as the most democratic and empowering of our body parts.'
Literary Review of Canada

The Independent

Spis treści

Introduction: No Wrong Doors: An Entryway 1. Anal Theory, or Reading from Behind 2. Orienting Virginity 3. Topping from the Bottom: Anne Tenino's Frat Boy and Toppy 4. Orienting Brokeback Mountain 5. Spanking Colonialism 6. Unlocking Delmira Agustini's 'El Intruso' 7. Shameful Matrophilia in Doña Herlinda y su hijo 8. Vengeful Vidal

O autorze

Allan, Jonathan A.
Jonathan A. Allan is Canada research chair in queer theory and assistant professor of gender and women's studies and English and creative writing at Brandon University. He is the author of Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus.