Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male RepresentationIndiana University Press, 1995 M06 22 - 336 pages "Juxtaposing the narrative strategies of Freud, Wilde and Jarman; film pornography and Almodovar; and Dennis Cooper, Robert GlÃ1⁄4ck and Kevin Killian, Jackson offers a delightfully intelligent and inventive reappraisal of key issues in gay representation." -- Gay Times "A major event in gay cultural theory.... the feat of critical imagination is absolutely stunning in its scope and power. [This book] will be definitive in laying out the issues for subsequent writers in gay theory." -- David M. Halperin Earl Jackson examines visual and narrative texts from a variety of genres, including case histories, pornography, science fiction, and experimental prose. |
Contents
HISTORY AND ITS DESUBLIMATIONS | 53 |
Oscar Wildes W H | 73 |
3 | 93 |
GRAPHIC SPECULARITY | 126 |
SCANDALOUS NARRATIVES | 179 |
In Conclusions | 255 |
Notes | 267 |
Works Cited | 299 |
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