Queer Italia
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Italian and Italian American Studies
ISBN-10
0312240260
ISBN-13
9780312240264
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Imprint
St Martin's Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 13th, 2004
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
310 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.60 x 1.50 cms
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Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. While fully cognizant of the theoretical risks inherent in trans-historicizing sexuality, the contributors to this volume share an interest in probing the multi-form dynamics of sexual desires in Italian texts through the centuries.
Gary P. Cestaro''s Queer Italia includes essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern, and attempts to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. Contributors explore the multiform dynamics of sexuality in Italian texts and aim not to promote the mistaken notion of a single homosexuality through history; rather, they upset and undo the equally misguided assumption of an omnipresent heterosexuality by uncovering the complexities of desire in texts from all periods. Somewhat paradoxically, a kind of queer canon results. These essays open a much-needed critical space in the Italian tradition wherein fixed definitions of sexual identity collapse. Queer Italia will be of interest to a wide audience of Italianists, medieval to modern, and queer cultural theorists.
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