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Desire - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Desire - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Desire: A Memoir is a hybrid of autobiography, meditation, and
philosophy that explores the existential sources of his writing.
Effortlessly blending the tragic and comic, Dollimore's unique
voice relates a life haunted and torn by loss, and the at once
intensely personal yet universal experience of suffering and
longing. In this moving memoir Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life
dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human
desire. He writes honestly and movingly about his teenage
attraction to risk and danger; of wounding motorcycle crashes and
lucky escapes; of sexual curiosity as a flight from boredom; of
suicidal depression and sexual ecstasy, of his discovery of love
and literature and his adventures cruising in the gay subcultures
of late twentieth-century New York, Brighton, and Sydney. For more
than thirty years Dollimore has been one of contemporary culture's
most influential critics of politics, literature, and sexuality. At
the University of Sussex he pioneered cultural materialism in early
modern and literary studies and gay studies in education, including
co-founding there the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence.
His landmark books include Radical Tragedy (1984), with Alan
Sinfield, Political Shakespeare (1985) and Sexual Dissidence
(1991). In later books like Death, Desire and Loss in Western
Culture (1999) and Sex Literature and Censorship (2001) he turned
his attention to a fresh interrogation of those dark, recalcitrant
elements of desire and mortality that resist utopian
transformation. He has held chairs at Sussex and York and lectured
and taught throughout the world.
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