UID:
almafu_9959233747202883
Format:
1 online resource (337 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-02306-3
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9786612023064
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1-4426-7604-3
Series Statement:
University of Toronto Romance Series
Content:
Writing at first anonymously and later under the pen name Pierre Loti, French author Julien Viaud (1850-1923) produced a series of fictions that sympathetically portrayed male same-sex desire and its accompanying societal conflicts. Due to the constraints of the time, Viaud had to develop various strategies for discussing his subject covertly; his success in doing so is demonstrated by the great critical and commercial success he enjoyed during his lifetime, which included his election to the French Academy at age forty-one. Richard Berrong presents a gay reading of the novels and novellas of Julien Viaud, chronologically tracing his development of a distinct homosexual identity and the strategies that he employed to discuss it in a way that would not be obvious to the general public. In so doing, Berrong asserts that Viaud's development of a homosexual identity undermined and realigned dominant constructions of masculinity, presented the need for gay community, and elaborated the role of literature for gay men. The first book-length gay reading of Viaud's corpus, this work will make an important contribution not only to the study of Viaud, but also to the study of gay and lesbian history, culture, and literature.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Was Julien Viaud Gay? An examination of the evidence -- Contextualized suggestion and ambiguity: Aziyade -- Discovering a fuller range of sexuality: the marriage of Loti -- A plea for sexual understanding: the story of a Spahi -- Man (men?) in love: my brother yes -- Different contexts, different sexualities: Iceland fisherman -- The origin of sexual ambiguity in the Madame Butterfly legend: Madame Chrysanthemum -- A proustian probing into childhood and the beginnings of sexuality: the story of a child -- Works of self-doubt: a phantom from the East and sailor -- Creating the allegorical gay novel: Ramuntcho -- A defence of homosexuals and a consciousness raising: The Awakened.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-3695-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442676046
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442676046
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