UID:
almahu_9948208549702882
Format:
272 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2001.
ISBN:
9780312299378
Content:
William S. Burroughs is consistently thought of as a novelist who is gay, rather than a gay novelist. This distinction is slight, yet remarkable, since it has meant that Burroughs has been excluded from the gay canon and from the scope of queer theory. In this intelligent book, Jamie Russell offers the first queer reading of Burrough's novels. He explores how the novels of Burroughs can be seen as a sustained attempt to offer a very personal rethinking of gay subjectivity, and as an attempt to overturn stereotypes of gay men as effeminate. Yet in his celebration and appropriation of some of the most violent, misogynistic, and effeminaphobic elements of heterosexually-identified masculinity, Burroughs's life and writing suggests a subjectivity which has been deeply troubling to many in the gay community.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780312238681
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780312239237
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781349386543
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/9780312299378
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299378
