Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City

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2004
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Chisholm (English, U. of Alberta) examines recent experiments in queer city writing through Walter Benjamin's dialectical optics on metropolitan culture. She discusses the dialectics of seeing in the wake of the gay bathhouse, the city of collective memory, queer passages in Gai Paris, and the lesbian boh me. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portla

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Chisholm (English, U. of Alberta) examines recent experiments in queer city writing through Walter Benjamin's dialectical optics on metropolitan culture. She discusses the dialectics of seeing in the wake of the gay bathhouse, the city of collective memory, queer passages in Gai Paris, and the lesbian boh me. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portla

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 376
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 15 Dec 2004
ISBN 10: 0816644047
ISBN 13: 9780816644049

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Queer Constellations sets a new standard and methodological trend in queer studies. A major contribution to the space/place debates. --Cindy Patton, author of Globalizing AIDS
Inspired, eloquent, and compelling. [Queer Constellations] freshly and bravely revisits gay and lesbian culture tropes and questions cultural assumptions from all quarters. The apparent hedonism and frivolity of consumerism is given a tough dressing down through its links to wreckage, displacement, and ruin, while its connection to cultural production and urban economics is underscored. And most significant of all, the powerful concept of queer constellation is developed and forged into a real tool for understanding the trans/formations of queer cultures. --Journal of the History of Sexuality