Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality
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Gay Autobiography
Gay Body
Giovanni Comisso
Il Fuoco
Italian literary criticism
Luigi Settembrini
male homosexuality in Italian literature
Mario Mieli
masculinity studies
Massimo Bontempelli
narrative identity
Pao Pao
Pasolini's Death
Pasolini's Homosexuality
Pasolini's Work
Pasolini’s Death
Pasolini’s Homosexuality
Pasolini’s Work
Passive Pederasts
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Vittorio Tondelli
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- ISBN 9781138257986
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Derek Duncan's timely study is the first book in English to examine constructions of male homosexuality in Italian literature. In admirably clear and elegant prose, Duncan analyzes texts ranging from the 1890s through the 1990s. He brings canonical authors like D'Annunzio and Pasolini together with under-appreciated writers like Comisso, and also looks at less conventionally literary genres. Duncan takes on the thorny theoretical issues surrounding questions of gay identity and also provides a sound historical context for his discussion of how Italian narrative sheds light on Italian homosexuality and on the broader issues attending contemporary sexuality, including complicating factors such as race. While the early texts considered were produced at a historical moment when 'homosexuality' as a culturally meaningful entity had yet to crystallize, recent autobiographies show the authors reflecting explicitly on questions of gay identity and what it means to be a homosexual male in present-day Italy. In charting the emergence of the homosexual in twentieth-century Italy, however, Duncan's focus is less on questions of identity than on the meaning attributed to sex between men in the broader cultural context. His book is a significant contribution to Italian literary criticism and to gender, gay, and cultural studies.
Dr Derek Duncan is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.
