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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chisholm, Dianne, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people's writings--History and criticism.

Gay people's writings.

Homosexuality in literature.

Cities and towns in literature.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Benjamin, Walter.

Physical Description:

xix, 353 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed through new queer narratives of inner-city life. Dianne Chisholm introduces readers to new practices of walking, seeing, citing, and remembering the city in works by Neil Bartlett, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Glück, Alan Hollinghurst, Gary Indiana, Eileen Myles, Sarah Schulman, Gail Scott, Edmund White, and David Wojnarowicz.

Contents:

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 Boheme

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-339) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9628-4

OCLC:

191953325