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André Gide : pederasty and pedagogy

Author: Naomi Segal
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Segal, Naomi.
André Gide.
Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998
(OCoLC)607059681
Named Person: André Gide; André Gide; André Gide; André Gide
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Naomi Segal
ISBN: 0198159765 9780198159766
OCLC Number: 39085522
Description: xi, 387 p. ; 23 cm.
Responsibility: Naomi Segal.
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Abstract:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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