André Gide : pederasty and pedagogy

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Label

André Gide : pederasty and pedagogy

Title remainder

pederasty and pedagogy

Statement of responsibility

Naomi Segal

Creator

• Segal, Naomi

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Gide, André, 1869-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Homosexuality and literature -- France

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"This book makes a powerful and sometimes contentious contribution to current debates in gender, feminism, and queer theory. Tracing the hydraulic image in a range of theoretical texts on pedagogy, pederasty, reproductive fantasy, and the anthropology of body fluids, Naomi Segal goes on to examine this imagery in the writings of Andre Gide." "Gide's sexuality was explicitly central to everything he wrote, but it was complex and diverse, motivated as much by undesire as by curiosity and the chase. The ventriloquism of the female voice, versions of triangularity, the potentially endless male chain, the desire of sun on skin, a sideways genealogy, and the gratuity of crime, education, virtue, or play - these mobile patterns are found throughout his fiction and non-fiction. In Gide's polemic, it is always better to be loved by an uncle than an aunt; but all love is motivated by the fluidity of the swerve."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

848/.91209

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ2613.I2

LC item number

Z685 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography