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[August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894] |
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Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
(2004) by Didier Eribon, & Michael Lucey, Translator (2004)
A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999,
Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of
reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s
foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a
pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in
French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now
and as it has been expressed in literary history and in the life and work
of Foucault, Eribon argues that gay male politics, social life, and
culture are transformative responses to an oppressive social order.
Bringing together the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith
Butler, and Erving Goffman, he contends that gay culture and political
movements flow from the need to overcome a world of insult in the process
of creating gay selves.
Eribon describes the emergence of homosexual literature in Britain and
France at the turn of the last century and traces this new gay discourse
from Oscar Wilde and the literary circles of late-Victorian Oxford to
André Gide and Marcel Proust. He asserts that Foucault should be placed in
a long line of authors—including Wilde, Gide, and Proust—who from the
nineteenth century onward have tried to create spaces in which to resist
subjection and reformulate oneself. Drawing on his unrivaled knowledge of
Foucault’s oeuvre, Eribon presents a masterful new interpretation of
Foucault. He calls attention to a particular passage from Madness and
Civilization that has never been translated into English. Written some
fifteen years before The History of Sexuality, this passage seems
to contradict Foucault’s famous idea that homosexuality was a
late-nineteenth-century construction. Including an argument for the use of
Hannah Arendt’s thought in gay rights advocacy, Insult and the Making
of the Gay Self is an impassioned call for critical, active engagement
with the question of how gay life is shaped both from without and within.
The Victorian Age in Literature
(1913) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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