| Of Captive Queens and Holy Panthers: Prison Fiction and Male Homoerotic Experience Contributor(s): Büssing, Sabine (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631417101 ISBN-13: 9783631417102 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $66.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science |
| Dewey: 810.992 |
| LCCN: 90005747 |
| Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie |
| Physical Information: 231 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Prison eroticism can by no means be reduced to -decadent- phenomena such as transvestism, prostitution and gang rape. On the contrary, the homoerotic subject-matter in fiction is often accompanied by an astonishingly transcendental vision of the prison - comparable with the Dostoevskyan conception that Man is forever in solitary confinement unless he can reach his fellow-prisoner. It is Everyman who is thrown into a radically novel environment, must cope with it, and often has to reconsider his original self- definition as an erotic human being." |