ISBN10: 0822333716, ISBN13: 9780822333715, [publisher: Duke University Press Books 2004-09-15, Durham, N.C. :|Chesham] Softcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 0822333716, ISBN13: 9780822333715, [publisher: Duke University Press, North Carolina] Softcover Paperback. A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a path-breaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now and as it has been expressed in literary history and in the life and work of Foucault, Eribon argues that gay male politics, social life, and culture are transformative responses to an oppressive social order. Bringing together the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, and Erving Goffman, he contends that gay culture and political movements flow from the need to overcome a world of insult in the process of creating gay selves. Eribon describes the emergence of homosexual literature in Britain and France at the turn of the last century and traces this new gay discourse from Oscar Wilde and the literary circles of late-Victorian Oxford to Andre Gide and Marcel Proust.He asserts that Foucault should be placed in a long line of authors--including Wilde, Gide, and Proust--who from the nineteenth century onward have tried to create spaces in which to resist subjection and reformulate oneself.Drawing on his unrivaled ...
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ISBN10: 0822333716, ISBN13: 9780822333715, [publisher: Duke University Press Jul 2004] Softcover Neuware - 'Best known in the United States for his biography of Michel Foucault, Didier Eribon is well known in France as an eloquent and influential gay critic and advocate. This stunning analysis of the continuing power of antihomosexual insult to shape gay lives shows us why. A tour de force of cultural criticism, erudition, and social engagement, Eribon's work demonstrates the intellectual breadth and radical potential of queer critique.'--George Chauncey, author of 'Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940'
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ISBN10: 0822333716, ISBN13: 9780822333715, [publisher: Duke University Press] Softcover Published in English for the first time, Didier Eribon' s well-received and celebrated work on a philosophy of and examination of gay life Translator(s): Lucey, Michael. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676. . 2004. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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