Queer constellations : subcultural space in the wake of the city / Dianne Chisholm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chisholm, Dianne, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Benjamin, Walter.

Gay peoples' writings--History and criticism.

Gay peoples' writings.

Gay people's writings.

Homosexuality in literature.

Cities and towns in literature.

Physical Description:

xix, 353 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction: Sodom and Gomorrah in the era of late capitalism; or, A return to Walter Benjamin

Love at last sight; or, The dialectics of seeing in the wake of the gay bathhouse

The city of collective memory

Queer passages in gai Paris; or, Flâneries through the paradoxes of history

The lesbian Bohème

Conclusion: millennial metropolis: blasting a queer era out of homogeneous history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-339) and index.

ISBN:

0816644039

0816644047

OCLC:

55877718