Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0312240244 ISBN 13: 9780312240240

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Riassunto

Gary P. Cestaro's Queer Italia includes essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern, and attempts to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. Contributors explore the multiform dynamics of sexuality in Italian texts and aim not to promote the mistaken notion of a single homosexuality through history; rather, they upset and undo the equally misguided assumption of an omnipresent heterosexuality by uncovering the complexities of desire in texts from all periods. Somewhat paradoxically, a kind of queer canon results. These essays open a much-needed critical space in the Italian tradition wherein fixed definitions of sexual identity collapse. Queer Italia will be of interest to a wide audience of Italianists, medieval to modern, and queer cultural theorists.

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Recensione

'In conclusion, it is to be hoped that this book will circulate beyond scholars primarily interested in gender studies and Italian history because of its demonstration of just how fruitful queer criticism can be in contested areas of culture.' - Mary P. Wood, European History Quarterly

L'autore

Gary P. Cestaro is Associate Professor of Italian language and literature at DePaul University in Chicago.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312240244
• ISBN 13: 9780312240240
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 242
• Redattore: Cestaro Gary P.