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The Narrative Mood Of Jean Rhys' Quartet, Octavio R. Gonzalez
The Narrative Mood Of Jean Rhys' Quartet, Octavio R. Gonzalez
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This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel Quartet. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic aesthetic. But what do we mean when we classify or "diagnose" authors of literature or fictional characters as in the case of Rhys' and Quartet's protagonist? Against this mode of reading, I argue that Rhys' novel asks us, in various ways, to understand it on its own terms, …
Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, And Masochism, Amber Jamilla Musser (2014), Octavio R. Gonzalez
Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, And Masochism, Amber Jamilla Musser (2014), Octavio R. Gonzalez
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Jorge Olivares, Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality, And The Cuban Revolution., Octavio R. Gonzales
Jorge Olivares, Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality, And The Cuban Revolution., Octavio R. Gonzales
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Isherwood's Impersonality: Ascetic Self-Divestiture And Queer Relationality In A Single Man, Octavio R. Gonzales
Isherwood's Impersonality: Ascetic Self-Divestiture And Queer Relationality In A Single Man, Octavio R. Gonzales
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This article develops the concept of “misfit minorities,” drawing on the Christopher Isherwood archive, and focusing on Isherwood’s seminal novel, A Single Man, and his autobiographical revision of the Berlin years, Christopher and His Kind. The essay argues that Isherwood’s Single Man and his American, post-1960s literary persona as a staunch advocate for gay liberation needs to be revisited, given the novel’s ambivalence toward the politics of identity, and given Isherwood’s aesthetic distrust of the instrumentalization of literature as propaganda. Rather, we ought to reconsider Isherwood and his legacy as consistently suspicious of identity. Rather than deprecating his earlier works …
Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections On The Subculture Of Barebacking By Tim Dean University Of Chicago Press, 2009, Octavio R. Gonzalez
Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections On The Subculture Of Barebacking By Tim Dean University Of Chicago Press, 2009, Octavio R. Gonzalez
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Tracking The Bugchaser: Giving "The Gift" Of Hiv/Aids, Octavio R. Gonzalez
Tracking The Bugchaser: Giving "The Gift" Of Hiv/Aids, Octavio R. Gonzalez
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Friday, August 13, 1999, Octavio R. Gonzales
Friday, August 13, 1999, Octavio R. Gonzales
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