LEADER 04157oam 22004454a 450 001 9910137070903321 005 20210915045943.0 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0124.1.00 035 $a(CKB)3710000000834108 035 $a(OAPEN)1004595 035 $a(OCoLC)1181774002 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87181 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000834108 100 $a20200729e20202015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHomotopia?: Gay Identity, Sameness & the Politics of Desire$fJonathan Kemp 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (154 pages) $cPDF, digital file(s) 300 $a"This work was originally written for a Master of Philosophy degree at Sussex University in 1997"--Page facing title page. 311 08$aPrint version: 0692606246 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 137-[153]). 327 $aIntroduction. Refusals -- Against custom : Andre Gide's pedagogic pederasty -- No such things as homosexuals : Marcel Proust and 'la race maudite' -- Beautiful flowers and perverse ruins : Edward Carpenter's Intermediate sex -- A problem in gay heroics : John Addington Symonds and l'amour de l'impossible -- Conclusion. Fear of a gay anus. 330 $aDo opposites attract? Is desire lack? These assumptions have become so much a part of the ways in which we conceive desire that they are rarely questioned. Yet, what do they say about how homosexuality -- a desire for the same -- is viewed in our culture? This book takes as its starting point the absence of a suitable theory of homosexual desire, a theory not predicated on such heterological assumptions. It is an investigation into how such assumptions acquired meaning within homosexual discourse, and as such is offered as an interruption within the hegemony of desire. As such, homosexual desire constitutes the biggest challenge to Western binaric thinking in that it dissolves the sacred distinctions between Same/Other, Desire/Identification, subject/object, male/female. Homotopia? (composed in 1997 but not published until now) investigates the development of a homosexual discourse at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, and reveals how that discourse worked within heterosexualized models of desire. Andre Gide's Corydon, Edward Carpenter's The Intermediate Sex, and John Addington Symond's A Problem in Modern Ethics are all pseudo-scientific texts written by non-medical men of letters, and were, in their time, highly influential on the emerging homosexual discourse. The fourth text, the twenty-odd pages of Marcel Proust's novel A la recherche de temps perdu usually referred to as 'La Race maudite,' is the most problematic, in that it appeared under the guise of fiction. But Proust originally planned this 'essay-within-a-novel' to be published separately. In it, he offers a pseudo-scientific theory of male-male love. These four texts were published between the years 1891 and 1924, an historical moment when the concept of a distinct homosexual identity took shape within a medicalized discourse centered on essential identity traits and characteristics, and they all work within the rubric of science, contributing to a discourse which saw the human race divided into two distinct categories: heterosexuals and homosexuals. How did this division come about, and what were its effects? How was this discourse sustained, and how were the meanings it produced received? For men whose erotic interest was exclusively in other men, what did it mean to see oneself and one's desires as the outcome of biology rather than moral lapse? 606 $aGay men$xSocial life and customs 606 $aHomosexuality 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGay men$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aHomosexuality. 676 $a306.76/6 700 $aKemp$b Jonathan$f1967-$0894870 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910137070903321 997 $aUNINA