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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807270903321

Autore

Champagne John

Titolo

The ethics of marginality : a new approach to gay studies / / John Champagne ; foreword by Donald Pease

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8621-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

305.9/0664

Soggetti

Homosexuality - Philosophy

Marginality, Social

Homosexuality and art

Homosexuality and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Subject and/in Ideology; Chapter 2 Gay Pornography and Nonproductive Expenditure; Chapter 3 ""Anthropology-Unending Search for What Is Utterly Precious"": Race, Class, and Tongues Untied; Chapter 4 ""I Just Wanna Be a Rich Somebody"": Experience, Common Sense, and Paris Is Burning; Chapter 5 Conclusion: On the Uses and Disadvantages of a History of the Other-An Untimely Meditation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An original and timely critique which moves gay studies beyond both identity politics and the "rights" discourse, as it questions whose interests are served in an uncritical celebration of the Other. Champagne uses the work of such critics as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Spivak, as he establishes a ground-breaking and controversial new theoretical model for studies of the Other.