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Author Bucher, Michael.

Title The Body of Work : John Rechy's Sensual Poetics
Published Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (347 pages)
Series American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v. 302
American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 302.
American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v. 302
Contents Cover; Titel; Imprint; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION: HONEY, YOUR MUSCLES ARE AS GAY AS MY DRAG; Review: The Body of Work; Survey of Secondary Literature on Rechy's Work; 2 THEORY: WRITING AND RELATING; Writing as an Anti-Social Act?; Henry Heifetz and the Anti-Social Writer; Leo Bersani and the Anti-Social Thesis; Lee Edelman and Anti-Relational Queer Theory; Style and the Forging of New Relations; Foucault on Relations, Modes of Life, and Style; Foucault and the Ambiguity of Power in the Invention of Homosexuality; Foucault, Deleuze and the Function of Literature
Deleuze and the Politics of LiteratureThe Minor: Infamous Men, the Lumpen, and the People to Come; Deleuze and Guattari: Minor Literature; The Lives of Infamous Men; The Lumpen & Transgender History; Rechy's Sensual Poetics; 3 GROWING WINGS: „CITY OF NIGHT" (1963); Rage against the Helplessness of Man; Queens and Militancy; Unpredictable Patterns: Sexual Trauma and Minor Literature; 4 A NEW FOCUS ON THE BODY: „NUMBERS" (1967); Fabulous Muscles; Park Life; 5 AT ODDS WITH GAY LIBERATION: „THE SEXUAL OUTLAW" (1977) AND „RUSHES" (1979)
Between Non-Fiction Novel and Urban Pastoral: A Proliferation of GenresBodybuilding and the Art of Living One's Life; Rechy and S 6 THE GESTURES OF INFAMOUS PEOPLE: „ABOUT MY LIFE AND THE KEPT WOMAN" (2008); 7 CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Backcover
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Subject Rechy, John -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Rechy, John fast
Subject Sexual minorities in literature.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Mexican Americans in literature
Sexual minorities in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3825378837
9783825378837