Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central?
Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very
societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history -
history rather than human nature - which has produced this
paradoxical position? These are just some of the questions explored
in this wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to
the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop
issues of postmodernity. In the process it brilliantly links
writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and
cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon,
Foucault, and Monique Wittig. So Freud's theory of perversion is
discovered to be more challenging than either his critics or his
advocates usually allow, especially when approached via the earlier
period's archetypal perverts, the religious heretic and the wayward
woman, Satan and Eve. The book further shows how the literature,
histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove
remarkably illuminating for current debates in literary theory,
psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. It includes chapters on
transgression and its containment, contemporary theories of sexual
difference, homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite
literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England,
homosexuality, and race.
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