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Author Chisholm, Dianne, 1953-

Title Queer constellations : subcultural space in the wake of the city / Dianne Chisholm
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 353 pages)
Contents Sodom and Gomorrah in the era of late capitalism; or, a return to Walter Benjamin -- Love at last sight; or, the dialectics of seeing in the wake of the gay bathhouse -- The city of collective memory -- Queer passages in gai Paris; or, flâneries through the paradoxes of history -- The lesbian Bohème -- Conclusion: millennial metropolis: blasting a queer era out of homogeneous history
Summary Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed through new queer narratives of inner-city life. Dianne Chisholm introduces readers to new practices of walking, seeing, citing, and remembering the city in works by Neil Bartlett, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Glück, Alan Hollinghurst, Gary Indiana, Eileen Myles, Sarah Schulman, Gail Scott, Edmund White, and David Wojnarowicz
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-339) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
SUBJECT Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast
Subject Gay people's writings -- History and criticism
Homosexuality in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Cities and towns in literature
Gays' writings
Homosexuality in literature
Letterkunde.
Homoseksualiteit.
Subcultuur.
Steden.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816696284
0816696284