Imperial desire : dissident sexualities and colonial literature / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holden, Philip, 1962-

Ruppel, Richard R., 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain.

Homosexuality and literature.

Homosexuality and literature--Colonies--Great Britain.

Colonies.

Great Britain.

Imperialism in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Desire in literature.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 335 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]

Summary:

An exploration of the intersection of colonialism and homosexuality in fiction and travel writing from Robinson Crusoe to the present, this volume brings together two dynamic fields of academic inquiry: colonial discourse analysis, which considers literary texts as expressions of colonial power; and queer theory, which interrogates the representation, enforcement, and subversions of sexualities in literature and culture. These writers reexamine the work of Kipling, Conrad, Forster, Lessing, and others, ranging from male adventure stories to postcolonial novels. This volume will provoke and inform readers concerned with gender and sexuality, colonial history and literature, or with any of the works and authors revisited--and reexperienced--here.

Contents:

Introduction / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel

The sublimation of desire to apocalyptic passion in Defoe's Crusoe trilogy / Hans Turley

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Sapphic vision / John Beynon

The guise of friendship / Terry Goldie

Lingering pleasures, perverted texts : colonial desire in Kipling's Anglo-India / Anjali Arondekar

Fantasies of "lady pioneers," between narrative and theory / Christopher Lane

Redressing the Empire : Anthony Trollope and British gender anxiety on "The banks of the Jordan" / Mark Forrester

From mimicry to menace : Conrad and late Victorian masculinity / Tim Middleton

Girl! What? Did I mention a girl? : the economy of desire in Heart of darkness / Richard J. Ruppel

Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's romance / Sarah Cole

Only cathect : queer heirs and narrative desires in Howards End / Lois Cucullu

Unarm, Eros! : adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis

Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff

Sex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. Boone

Coda : rethinking colonial discourse analysis and queer studies / Philip Holden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0816637644

0816637652

OCLC:

51117025