Epistemology of the closet /
Looks at the central importance of the homosexual/heterosexual dichotomy in the Western culture of the last century, in particular by a series of provocative readings of Melville, Wilde, James and Proust. A book of both political and literary importance.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1990]
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Table of Contents:
- Epistemology of the closet
- Some binarisms (I) / Billy Budd: after the homosexual
- Some binarisms (II) / Wilde, Nietzsche, and the sentimental relations of the male body
- The beast in the closet / James and the writing of homosexual panic
- Proust and the spectacle of the closet.