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Title: POSTCOLONIAL AND QUEER THEORIES
INTERSECTIONS AND ESSAYS
By: John Charles Hawley
Format: Hardback

List price: £74.00


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ISBN 10: 0313315914
ISBN 13: 9780313315916
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Pub. date: 28 February, 2001
Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature No. 101
Pages: 232
Description: An examination of the wide variety of sexual expression and self-description throughout the emerging world among gays and lesbians. It suggests alternative frameworks for describing sexuality around the world and for exploring literary representations of gay and lesbian lifestyles.
Synopsis: Since the 1960s American and Western European gays have set the agenda for sexual liberation and defined its emergence. Western models of homosexuality often provide the only globally recognizable frameworks for discussing gay and lesbian cultures around the world, and thus Western interpretive schemes are imposed on non-Western societies. At the same time, gay and lesbian lifestyles in emerging countries do not always neatly fit Western paradigms, and data from those countries often clash with dominant Western models. So too, the literature of emerging countries often depicts homosexuality in ways which challenge the existing tools of Western literary critics. The thirteen contributors to this book examine the implied imposition of a heavily capitalistic, white, and generally male model of homosexuality on the emerging world. By combining postcolonial and queer theoretical approaches, this volume suggests alternative frameworks for describing sexuality around the world and for exploring non-Western literary representations of gay and lesbian lifestyles.The volume concludes with a chapter assessing new questions in both postcolonial and queer theorizing that suggest common concerns and many avenues for future research.
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: Greenwood Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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