The Penetrated Male

Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber's Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing t...

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Main Author: Kemp, Jonathan (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2013
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