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Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World de Gregory Woods

Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World

Autor Gregory Woods
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 noi 2017

Bazându-ne pe datele oferite de Yale University Press, remarcăm în Homintern o lucrare de o anvergură istorică și culturală impresionantă, care documentează modul în care rețelele de socializare și colaborare ale persoanelor homosexuale au modelat modernitatea occidentală. Subliniem că titlul, o aluzie ironică la „Comintern”-ul leninist, investighează existența unor structuri informale de solidaritate între scriitori, actori, politicieni și spioni care, deși marginalizați, au reușit să influențeze decisiv curentul cultural majoritar. Autorul, Gregory Woods, propune o structură narativă bogată în detalii biografice și anecdote revelatoare, mutând focusul de la simple cronologii la o analiză a strategiilor de supraviețuire și afirmare în orașe-cheie precum Paris, Berlin sau New York.

Notăm cu interes că acest volum reprezintă o culminare a cercetărilor lui Woods asupra literaturii și identității, continuând direcția teoretică stabilită în lucrări precum Articulate Flesh, unde argumenta că poezia homosexuală este parte integrantă a curentului literar principal, nu o nișă izolată. Cititorii familiarizați cu Toward Stonewall de Nicholas C Edsall vor aprecia la Homintern trecerea de la o sinteză a subculturilor la o explorare mult mai specifică a influenței estetice și politice la nivel global. Spre deosebire de Gay Gotham, care se concentrează strict pe scena artistică din New York, volumul de față oferă o perspectivă transcontinentală, demonstrând cum vizibilitatea a devenit, treptat, o măsură a progresului modern.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300228748
ISBN-10: 0300228740
Pagini: 440
Ilustrații: 24 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte pentru rigoarea academică dublată de un stil narativ captivant. Cititorul va obține o înțelegere profundă a modului în care rețelele LGBTQ au acționat ca un motor al inovației în artele spectacolului, literatură și politică în secolul XX. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei interesați de istorie socială și de mecanismele prin care minoritățile reușesc să transforme cultura dominantă.

Despre autor

Gregory Woods este un distins profesor de studii gay și lesbiene la Nottingham Trent University, fiind considerat unul dintre principalii istorici și critici britanici ai literaturii queer. Cariera sa îmbină cercetarea academică cu poezia, publicând volume precum Records of an Incitement to Silence sau We Have the Melon. Expertiza sa în cartografierea temelor homoerotice în literatura secolului XX este reflectată în volumul Homintern, unde reușește să sintetizeze decenii de cercetare într-o cronică culturală vastă și accesibilă, recunoscută prin nominalizarea la Lambda Literary Awards.

Descriere scurtă

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks

"An avalanche of stories, ribald gossip, and lengthy asides . . . collectively confirm the book’s central thesis: gay culture, or at least gays and lesbians, did indeed liberate the modern world."—Booklist

In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity.
 
Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called “the Homintern” (an echo of Lenin’s “Comintern”) by those suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority culture.
 
Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history.

Notă biografică

Gregory Woods was appointed to Britain’s first chair in Gay and Lesbian Studies by Nottingham Trent University in 1998. He lives in Nottingham, UK.

Recenzii

“Woods is a knowledgeable and entertaining guide.”—Caleb Crain, The Guardian

"Without letting the purveyors of clichés about cliquish homosexuals off the hook, this lively history turns those stereotypes on their heads, taking seriously the queer networks that were central to modernism. Richly literary and attentive to networks of both men and women, Homintern also has a wide geographical range. Russian, Scandinavian and South American texts are thoughtfully integrated with accounts of New York, London, Berlin, Paris and their Mediterranean outposts. Gregory Woods writes with an insider’s flair, but does not sugarcoat the histories he tells. Frank about self-destructive behavior, he is also sensitive to divisions among sexual minorities along lines of ideology, class and generation."—Christopher Reed, author of Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas

"A well-researched, compelling study of how countless gay men have affected, influenced, and restructured the cultural climate for more than a hundred years. . . . An information-heavy book that provides a wonderful resource for those interested in learning about the rise of gay poetics at the onset of the twentieth century."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"Woods is a born storyteller, and he tells the story of the interlocking, international gay and lesbian networks in an unflaggingly lively way. This is a book that needs to be published."—David Bergman, author of The Violet Hour and Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris

“Woods’ history of the ‘homintern’ is in turn hilarious and horrifying… documents shocking levels of persecution. Homophobia was pervasive and vicious… But this is not a gloomy book. Woods lovingly presents a range of gloriously outrageous gay and lesbian individuals and couples.”—Joanna Bourke, BBC History

"Woods regales the reader with an avalanche of stories, ribald gossip, and lengthy asides that collectively confirm the book’s central thesis: gay culture, or at least gays and lesbians, did indeed liberate the modern world."—Brian Kenney, Booklist

“Homintern shines a fascinating spotlight on the diverse and informal networks of people who made up the gay communities worldwide which helped to shape art in its many forms over the decades, involving poets, dancers, actors, artists, designers, composers, politicians and spies. . . . This is a book which throws unreasonable prejudice in the trash can where it belongs, clears up misleading myths about gay people, and should be on the reading list of every fresher starting a university degree.”—Richard Edmonds, Hiskind

"Delicious, satisfying reading. Even readers knowledgeable about post-Oscar Wilde gay culture are unlikely to read more than a paragraph or two without learning something they did not know, and I cheerfully confess that my most frequent margin note was '!!!' . . . The range and depth of Woods' scholarship are remarkable, but the power of Homintern owes as much to the unabated vitality of his writing."—Tim Pfaff, Bay Area Reporter

"Gregory Woods’ Homintern is not just a first-rate work of literary and historical scholarship but a deeply moving narrative in its own right. In its global reach, it has no precedent, yet Woods never sacrifices intimacy for grandeur. In the future I have no doubt that scholars and readers will look to this as an essential text, one of those rare books that make other books possible."—David Leavitt, author of The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category.