Description
This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from literary modernism to the German New Wave and the present day. Ian Fleishman exposes a tradition of flamingly failed passing that is itself a surreptitious mode of passing: the flaunting of queer style as an intentionally unconvincing cover for queer content. Exploring a corpus of films and novels by AndrÉ Gide, Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, FranÇois Ozon, and Xavier Dolan, among others, Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing intervenes in trenchant debates about queer agency, visibility, negativity, and disidentification. Mapping queer strategies of storytelling onto queer practices of self-invention, Flamboyant Fictions wagers that it is precisely in instances of conflict between these auteurs and their inventions that narrative becomes a laboratory for testing the sovereignty and self-determination of queer identity.
Book Information
ISBN 9780810148031
Author Ian Fleishman
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Northwestern University Press
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Weight(grams) 454g
