ABSTRACT

Brings provocative, rigorous and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay critical analysis. Lee Edelman rearticulates the politics of sexuality, addressing some of the most hotly debated issues of our time.

part 1|75 pages

Literature/Theory/Gay Theory

chapter 1|21 pages

Homographesis

chapter 2|18 pages

Redeeming the Phallus

Wallace Stevens, Frank Lentricchia, AND THE Politics of (Hetero)Sexuality

chapter 3|34 pages

The Part For The (W)hole

Baldwin, Homophobia, AND THE Fantasmatics of “Race”

part 2|41 pages

Equations, Identities, and “AIDS”

chapter 4|14 pages

The Plague of Discourse

Politics, Literary Theory, and “AIDS”

chapter 5|25 pages

The Mirror and The Tank

“AIDS,” Subjectivity, and the Rhetoric of Activism

part 3|52 pages

Body Language/Body Politics

chapter 7|9 pages

Capitol Offenses

Sodomy in the Seat of American Government

chapter 8|10 pages

Throwing Up/Going Down

Bushusuru; OR, THE Fall of the West

chapter 9|23 pages

Tearooms and Sympathy

OR, The Epistemology of the Water Closet

part 4|71 pages

Ocular Proof

chapter 10|19 pages

Seeing Things

Representation, the Scene of Surveillance, AND THE Spectacle of Gay Male Sex

chapter 11|50 pages

Imagining The Homosexual

L AURA AND THE Other Face of Gender

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