A small boy and others: imitation and initiation in American culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
by Michael Moon
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In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances, ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures. Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining show more the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings. Moon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of "queerness." Rich in historical detail and insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of queer invention. show lessTags
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Michael Moon is Professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. He is the author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass. His books A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol; Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from show more Oroonoko to Anita Hill (edited with Cathy N. Davidson); and Displacing Homophobia (edited with Ronald R. Butters and John M. Clum) are also published by Duke University Press. show less
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- Canonical title
- A small boy and others: imitation and initiation in American culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
- Original publication date
- 1998
- Dedication
- To Marcie Frank and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Criticism, LGBTQ+, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 306.76 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Sexual relations Sexual orientation, transgender identity, intersexuality
- LCC
- HQ76.25 .M66 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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- 3
