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
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SUBJECT |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast |
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Gay people's writings -- History and criticism
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Cities and towns in literature
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Gays' writings
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Homosexuality in literature
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Letterkunde.
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Homoseksualiteit.
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Subcultuur.
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Steden.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780816696284 |
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0816696284 |
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