Queer Fictions of the Past

History, Culture, and Difference

• Author(s): Scott Bravmann,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 174
• ISBN_10: 0521599075
  ISBN_13: 9780521599078
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / LGBTQ , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events , Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies , Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies , Social Science / Gender Studies ,

Description:... 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.