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Queer fictions of the past : history, culture, and difference

Title: Queer fictions of the past : history, culture, and difference / Scott Bravmann.
Author: Bravmann, Scott, 1964-
Publication: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Description

xv, 174 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This is the first book to look at how lesbians and gays use history to define themselves as social, cultural, and political subjects. Bravmann shows how historical representations are dynamic conversations between past and present, creating individual and collective meanings. Exploring the theoretical and political ramifications of this project, he considers how historiography, ancient Greece, the Stonewall riots, and postmodern historical texts inform and reflect race, gender, class, and political differences in queer subjectivity.

Series Statement

Cambridge cultural social studies

Uniform Title

Cambridge cultural social studies

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. I. Queer cultural studies of history. 1. Metanarrative and gay identity. 2. Queer historical subjects -- pt. II. Reading past histories. 3. Re: reading queer history. 4. The lesbian and gay past: it's Greek to whom? 5. Queer fictions of Stonewall. 6. Re/writing queer histories -- pt. III. In/conclusion. 7. Queer fictions for the future.

ISBN

0521591015
9780521591010
0521599075
9780521599078

LCCN

96054613

OCLC

ocm36170561
36170561
SCSB-2135282

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library