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De Villiers, Nicholas

 
9780816675715: Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol
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ISBN 10: 0816675716 ISBN 13: 9780816675715
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 2012

Sinopsis

Opacity and the Closet interrogates the viability of the metaphor of “the closet” when applied to three important queer figures in postwar American and French culture: the philosopher Michel Foucault, the literary critic Roland Barthes, and the pop artist Andy Warhol. Nicholas de Villiers proposes a new approach to these cultural icons that accounts for the queerness of their works and public personas.

Rather than reading their self-presentations as “closeted,” de Villiers suggests that they invent and deploy productive strategies of “opacity” that resist the closet and the confessional discourse associated with it. Deconstructing binaries linked with the closet that have continued to influence both gay and straight receptions of these intellectual and pop celebrities, de Villiers illuminates the philosophical implications of this displacement for queer theory and introduces new ways to think about the space they make for queerness.

Using the works of Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol to engage each other while exploring their shared historical context, de Villiers also shows their queer appropriations of the interview, the autobiography, the diary, and the documentary-forms typically linked to truth telling and authenticity.

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Nicholas de Villiers is assistant professor of English and film at the University of North Florida.

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Editorial
University of Minnesota Press
Año de publicación
2012
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0816675716
ISBN 13 
9780816675715
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Número de páginas
248
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