Record Nr.

UNINA9910813772703321

Autore

Chisholm Dianne <1953->

Titolo

Queer constellations [[electronic resource] ] : subcultural space in the wake of the city / / Dianne Chisholm

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8166-9628-4

Descrizione fisica

xix, 353 p

Disciplina

809/.8920664

Soggetti

Gay people's writings - History and criticism

Homosexuality in literature

Cities and towns in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-339) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sodom and Gomorrah in the era of late capitalism; or, a return to Walter Benjamin -- Love at last sight; or, the dialectics of seeing in the wake of the gay bathhouse -- The city of collective memory -- Queer passages in gai Paris; or, flâneries through the paradoxes of history -- The lesbian Boheme -- Conclusion: millennial metropolis: blasting a queer era out of homogeneous history.