The ethics of marginality : a new approach to gay studies / John Champagne ; foreword by Donald Pease.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Champagne, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Philosophy.

Homosexuality.

Marginality, Social.

Homosexuality and art.

Homosexuality and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An original and timely critique which moves gay studies beyond both identity politics and the "rights" discourse, as it questions whose interests are served in an uncritical celebration of the Other. Champagne uses the work of such critics as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Spivak, as he establishes a ground-breaking and controversial new theoretical model for studies of the Other.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Subject and/in Ideology; Chapter 2 Gay Pornography and Nonproductive Expenditure; Chapter 3 ""Anthropology-Unending Search for What Is Utterly Precious"": Race, Class, and Tongues Untied; Chapter 4 ""I Just Wanna Be a Rich Somebody"": Experience, Common Sense, and Paris Is Burning; Chapter 5 Conclusion: On the Uses and Disadvantages of a History of the Other-An Untimely Meditation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8621-1

OCLC:

476093790