Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film (Paperback, New)

Gary P. Cestaro's Queer Italia includes essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern, and attempts to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. Contributors explore the multiform dynamics of sexuality in Italian texts and aim not to promote the mistaken notion of a single homosexuality through history; rather, they upset and undo the equally misguided assumption of an omnipresent heterosexuality by uncovering the complexities of desire in texts from all periods. Somewhat paradoxically, a kind of queer canon results. These essays open a much-needed critical space in the Italian tradition wherein fixed definitions of sexual identity collapse. Queer Italia will be of interest to a wide audience of Italianists, medieval to modern, and queer cultural theorists.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Italian and Italian American Studies
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	July 2004
Editors:	G. Cestaro
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	242
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-24026-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General
LSN:	0-312-24026-0
Barcode:	9780312240264

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