1st Edition
Artful Seduction Homosexuality and the Problematics of Exile
By Karl Posso
Copyright 2003
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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The controversial works of Brazilian authors Silviano Santiago(1936-) and Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-96) offer distinctive but complementary explorations of male homosexual subjectivities formulated through displacement, exile and the abject. Posso examines the innovative ways in which these writers stage-manage Western poststructuralist thought to critique heterosexist exclusion in Brazil and in... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Ambiguous Art of Vanishing: Abjection and Undecidable Homosexuality in Stella Manhattan; 2: ‘Autumn Leaves’: Deciduous Signification and Homosexual Exile; 3: ‘Bem longe de Marienbad’: The Masochistic Dislocation of Homosexual (Dis)satisfaction; 4: ‘There’s no place like home’: Writing Off the Domus in Onde andará Dulce Veiga?; Conclusion
Biography
Karl Posso
