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100 1  Kemp, Jonathan.|4aut 
245 10 Homotopia?: Gay Identity, Sameness & the Politics of 
       Desire. 
246 3  Homotopia? 
264  1 Brooklyn, NY :|bpunctum books,|c2015. 
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505 0  Introduction. Refusals -- Against custom : Andre Gide's 
       pedagogic pederasty -- No such things as homosexuals : 
       Marcel Proust and 'la race maudite' -- Beautiful flowers 
       and perverse ruins : Edward Carpenter's Intermediate sex -
       - A problem in gay heroics : John Addington Symonds and 
       l'amour de l'impossible -- Conclusion. Fear of a gay anus.
520    Do opposites attract? Is desire lack? These assumptions 
       have become so much a part of the ways in which we 
       conceive desire that they are rarely questioned. Yet, what
       do they say about how homosexuality -- a desire for the 
       same -- is viewed in our culture? This book takes as its 
       starting point the absence of a suitable theory of 
       homosexual desire, a theory not predicated on such 
       heterological assumptions. It is an investigation into how
       such assumptions acquired meaning within homosexual 
       discourse, and as such is offered as an interruption 
       within the hegemony of desire. As such, homosexual desire 
       constitutes the biggest challenge to Western binaric 
       thinking in that it dissolves the sacred distinctions 
       between Same/Other, Desire/Identification, subject/object,
       male/female. Homotopia? (composed in 1997 but not 
       published until now) investigates the development of a 
       homosexual discourse at the end of the nineteenth century 
       and the beginning of the twentieth century, and reveals 
       how that discourse worked within heterosexualized models 
       of desire. Andre Gide's Corydon, Edward Carpenter's The 
       Intermediate Sex, and John Addington Symond's A Problem in
       Modern Ethics are all pseudo-scientific texts written by 
       non-medical men of letters, and were, in their time, 
       highly influential on the emerging homosexual discourse. 
       The fourth text, the twenty-odd pages of Marcel Proust's 
       novel A la recherché de temps perdu usually referred to as
       'La Race maudite,' is the most problematic, in that it 
       appeared under the guise of fiction. But Proust originally
       planned this 'essay-within-a-novel' to be published 
       separately. In it, he offers a pseudo-scientific theory of
       male-male love. These four texts were published between 
       the years 1891 and 1924, an historical moment when the 
       concept of a distinct homosexual identity took shape 
       within a medicalized discourse centered on essential 
       identity traits and characteristics, and they all work 
       within the rubric of science, contributing to a discourse 
       which saw the human race divided into two distinct 
       categories: heterosexuals and homosexuals. How did this 
       division come about, and what were its effects? How was 
       this discourse sustained, and how were the meanings it 
       produced received? For men whose erotic interest was 
       exclusively in other men, what did it mean to see oneself 
       and one's desires as the outcome of biology rather than 
       moral lapse? 
546    English. 
650  0 Gay men|xSocial life and customs. 
650  0 Homosexuality. 
650  2 Homosexuality 
650  7 homosexuality.|2aat 
650  7 Gay & Lesbian studies.|2bicssc 
650  7 Gay men|xSocial life and customs.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00939152 
650  7 Homosexuality.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00959755 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies|2bisacsh 
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