Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film
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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.
Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film,Gary P. Cestaro,Palgrave Macmillan,0312240260,Europe - Italy,Film & Video - General,Gay & Lesbian,Gay Studies,Gender Studies,History and criticism,Homosexuality in motion pictur,Homosexuality in motion pictures,Italian literature,Italy,Lesbian Studies,Motion pictures,Social Science,Sociology,Films, cinema,Gay & Lesbian studies,Italian,Literary studies: general,Media studies,Social Science / Gender Studies
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