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A Small Boy and Others - Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol (Paperback, New)
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A Small Boy and Others - Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol (Paperback, New)
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In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon
to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in
modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary,
artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of
Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings
of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and
Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.Moon illuminates the careers of
James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments
of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new,
more complex cultural readings. He deftly engages notions of
initiation and desire not within the traditional framework of
"sexual orientation" but through the disorienting effects of
imitation. Whether invoking the artist Joseph Cornell's early
fascination with the Great Houdini or turning his attention to
James's self-described "initiation into style" at the age of
twelve-when he first encountered the homoerotic imagery in
paintings by David, Gericault, and Girodet-Moon reveals how the
works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive
to the point of "queerness." Rich in historical detail and
insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the
literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy
and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of brave and
outrageous queer invention. This long-awaited contribution from
Moon will be welcomed by all those engaged in literary, cultural,
and queer studies.
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