Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore - Rilegato

Atkins, Gary L.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 9888083236 ISBN 13: 9789888083237

Casa editrice: Hong Kong Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

This book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For gender studies and Southeast Asian studies, it provides a "queer reading" of Walter Spies, a gay German painter who in the 1930s helped turn Bali into an island imagined as an ideal male aesthetic state. Secondly, the book provides a historical account of the absorption of Western notions of romantic heterosexual monogamy in Thailand during the reign of King Rama VI and the resistance to those notions expressed through an architectural paradise called Babylon founded by a Thai known as Khun Toc. Finally, it describes the "cyber-paradise" of Fridae.com created by a young Singaporean named Stuart Koe. Collectively, the study examines the pursuit of sexual justice, the ideologies of manhood they challenged, and the geographic and online spaces they created.

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L'autore

Gary L. Atkins is a professor of communication at Seattle University in the United States. He is the author of Gay Seattle Stories of Exile and Belonging.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Hong Kong Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9888083236
• ISBN 13: 9789888083237
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 316