Queer constellations : subcultural space in the wake of the city / / Dianne Chisholm

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957578103321
• Autore: Chisholm Dianne <1953->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005
• ISBN: 0-8166-9628-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed through new queer narratives of inner-city life. Dianne Chisholm introduces readers to new practices of walking, seeing, citing, and remembering the city in works by Neil Bartlett, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Glück, Alan Hollinghurst, Gary Indiana, Eileen Myles, Sarah Schulman, Gail Scott, Edmund White, and David Wojnarowicz.