Gide's bent : sexuality, politics, writing / Michael Lucey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucey, Michael, 1960- author.

Series:

Ideologies of desire.

Oxford scholarship online.

Ideologies of desire

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gide, André, 1869-1951--Political and social views.

Homosexuality and literature--France--History--20th century.

Homosexuality and literature.

Politics and literature--France--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Gay men in literature.

Utopias in literature.

Sex in literature.

Local Subjects:

Gide, André, 1869-1951--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 238 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study investigates the place of sexuality in the writings of Andre Gide. Focusing on his work in the 1920s and 1930s, the years in which Gide wrote most openly about his homosexuality, the text shows how Gide's sexuality reflected his political interests.

Contents:

Contents; Note on Translation; Introduction; 1. Watching Sex in Si le grain ne meurl; 2. The Place of the Oedipal: Writing Home from North Africa; 3. Corydon and L'Ecole des femmes: Mimesis, the Mantis, the Gynaeceum; 4. Without Delay: Les Faux-Monnayeurs, Lacan, and the Onset of Sexuality; 5. Gribouille en Afrique: Gide's Voyage au Congo; 6. Sexuality, Politics and Culture: Gide's Trip to the Soviet Union; Epilogue: Queer Tears; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772429-9

1-280-65485-6

0-19-535974-7

OCLC:

435813351