Opacity and the closet [electronic resource] : queer tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol / Nicholas de Villiers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Villiers, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

Self in literature.

Homosexuality in literature.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Criticism and interpretation.

Foucault, Michel.

Barthes, Roland--Criticism and interpretation.

Barthes, Roland.

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

Warhol, Andy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Opacity and the Closet interrogates the viability of the metaphor of "the closet" when applied to three important queer figures in postwar American and French culture: the philosopher Michel Foucault, the literary critic Roland Barthes, and the pop artist Andy Warhol. Nicholas de Villiers proposes a new approach to these cultural icons that accounts for the queerness of their works and public personas. Rather than reading their self-presentations as "closeted," de Villiers suggests that they invent and deploy productive strategies of "opacity" that resist the closet and the confessional discou

Contents:

Introduction: Opacities: queer strategies

Confessions of a masked philosopher: anonymity and identification in Foucault and Guibert

Matte figures: Roland Barthes's ethics of meaning

"What do you have to say for yourself?" Warhol's opacity

Unseen Warhol/seeing Barthes

Andy Warhol up-tight: Warhol's effects

Conclusion: The interview as multi-mediated object.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8029-9

OCLC:

792688056