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Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (Hardcover)
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Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (Hardcover)
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A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult
and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of
reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's
foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author
of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading
voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as
it is lived now and as it has been expressed in literary history
and in the life and work of Foucault, Eribon argues that gay male
politics, social life, and culture are transformative responses to
an oppressive social order. Bringing together the work of Jean-Paul
Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, and Erving Goffman, he
contends that gay culture and political movements flow from the
need to overcome a world of insult in the process of creating gay
selves.Eribon describes the emergence of homosexual literature in
Britain and France at the turn of the last century and traces this
new gay discourse from Oscar Wilde and the literary circles of
late-Victorian Oxford to Andre Gide and Marcel Proust. He asserts
that Foucault should be placed in a long line of authors-including
Wilde, Gide, and Proust-who from the nineteenth century onward have
tried to create spaces in which to resist subjection and
reformulate oneself. Drawing on his unrivaled knowledge of
Foucault's oeuvre, Eribon presents a masterful new interpretation
of Foucault. He calls attention to a particular passage from
Madness and Civilization that has never been translated into
English. Written some fifteen years before The History of
Sexuality, this passage seems to contradict Foucault's famous idea
that homosexuality was a late-nineteenth-century construction.
Including an argument for the use of Hannah Arendt's thought in gay
rights advocacy, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an
impassioned call for critical, active engagement with the question
of how gay life is shaped both from without and within.
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