Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature

Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature

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An exploration of the intersection of colonialism and homosexuality in fiction and travel writing from Robinson Crusoe to the present, this volume brings together two dynamic fields of academic inquiry: colonial discourse analysis, which considers literary texts as expressions of colonial power; and queer theory, which interrogates the representation, enforcement, and subversions of sexualities in literature and culture. These writers reexamine the work of Kipling, Conrad, Forster, Lessing, and others, ranging from male adventure stories to postcolonial novels. This volume will provoke and inform readers concerned with gender and sexuality, colonial history and literature, or with any of the works and authors revisited-and reexperienced-here. Contributors: Anjali Arondekar, U of California, Santa Cruz; John C. Beynon, California State U, Fresno; Joseph A. Boone, USC; Sarah Cole, Columbia U; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Maria Davidis, Cornell; Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson U; Mark Forrester, U of Maryland; Terry Goldie, York U; Christopher Lane, Northwestern U; Tim Middleton, Bath Spa U College, UK; Hans Turley, U of Connecticut. ContentsIntroduction / Philip Holden and Richard J. RuppelThe sublimation of desire to apocalyptic passion in Defoe's Crusoe trilogy / Hans TurleyLady Mary Wortley Montagu's Sapphic vision / John BeynonThe guise of friendship / Terry GoldieLingering pleasures, perverted texts : colonial desire in Kipling's Anglo-India / Anjali ArondekarFantasies of "lady pioneers," between narrative and theory / Christopher LaneRedressing the Empire : Anthony Trollope and British gender anxiety on "The banks of the Jordan" / Mark ForresterFrom mimicry to menace : Conrad and late Victorian masculinity / Tim MiddletonGirl! What? Did I mention a girl? : the economy of desire in Heart of darkness / Richard J. RuppelHomoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's romance / Sarah ColeOnly cathect : queer heirs and narrative desires in Howards End / Lois CuculluUnarm, Eros! : adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria DavidisMany lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis DenisoffSex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. BooneCoda : rethinking colonial discourse analysis and queer studies / Philip Holden.

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Publisher University Of Minnesota Press
Published May 6, 2003
ISBN 1134054
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Philip Joseph Holden finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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