
Exposures
American Gay Men's Life Writing since Stonewall
Tomasz Basiuk(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 30. July 2013
Book
Hardback
398 pages
978-3-631-63421-9 (ISBN)
Description
The diversity of gay men's life writing since the Stonewall Inn riots is not limited to the coming-out story. Memoirs, personal essays, fictionalized autobiographies, and other forms of life writing witnessing to gay experience adopt many narrative paradigms and are profoundly self-reflexive about how they construct gay male identity. Exposures emphasizes both this critical perspective and the risk-taking, personal as much as artistic, assumed by gay male autobiographers. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writings on shame, inspired by Silvan Tomkins's affect theory, are an important point of reference. So is the political thought of Jacques Rancière, whose concept of the distribution of the sensible is called upon to describe the politico-aesthetic work, performed by gay male life writing.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-63421-9 (9783631634219)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03037-2
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Contents: Shame - Coming Out - Queer Mourning - Humor - Distribution of the Sensible - Affect Theory - Periperformative - Death Drive - Life Writing - Autobiographic Fiction - Queer Theory - Antisocial Turn - Queer Utopia - Witnessing.