BOOKS BY
Joseph Allen Boone.
CONDITIONS OF PRECARITY
Throughout this short story collection, various characters, young and old, of all races and backgrounds and sexualities, find themselves at risk, hovering on the brink of a life-altering realization, event, or shift in the way they see the world.
An immigrant grandmother who sells roses to gay customers at a West Hollywood bar; a deaf-mute masseur and sex worker plying his trade; a transient nesting in the lilac bushes of a New England college campus; a nineteenth-century orphan living on the streets of Liverpool;
The Debut Novel by Joseph Allen Boone
Furnace Creek
Taking its inspiration from Great Expectations, this novel teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues—racial injustice, a war abroad, women’s and gay rights, class struggle—that galvanized the world in those decades.
A guilty encounter with an escaped felon, a summer spent working for an eccentric man with a mysterious past: these events set the stage for the journey of sexual and moral discovery that takes Newt Seward to many a places as he confronts life’s many expectations and surprises.
The Homoerotics of Orientalism
One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with “deviant” male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism.
To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys…
Libidinal Currents
Challenging overarching theories of the novel by carefully mapping the historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental narratives, Boone constructs a model for interpreting sexuality that reaches from Freud’s theory of the libidinal instincts to Foucault’s theory of sexual discourse.
The most ambitious study yet written on the links between literary modernity and the psychology of sex, Boone’s Libidinal Currents will be a landmark book in the study of modernist fiction, gay studies/queer theory, feminist criticism, and studies in sexuality and gender….
Tradition Counter Tradition
One of the most important issues in literary studies concerns the relation of social ideology to literary form. Tradition Counter Tradition enters into this arena by focusing on the role that the myth of romantic marriage and its attendant ideologies of gender have played in the evolution of the Anglo-American novel over the past three centuries.
Combining an array of historical and theoretical perspectives, the opening chapters demonstrate how the marriage tradition’s structural paradigms of courtship, seduction and wedlock interlock to form a code of formal rules that promote the myth of sexual hierarchy as the basis of social and fictional order.
Engendering Men
Over the past several years, the question of men’s relation to feminist criticism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated topic. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics.
In the wake of feminism, many men have found it imperative to begin the task of retheorizing — as readers, writers, living and breathing bodies — the male position in our culture. Bringing together the work of 18 male critics, this collection of new work opens up an important new avenue in literary and cultural criticism, as well as in gender and feminist theory….
Queer Frontiers
From the history of gay and lesbian studies to the emergence of video bars, from an interview with playwright Cherrie Moraga to a photo record of 1950s gay Los Angeles, these original essays tackle the past, present, and future of queer sexuality from all directions. Queer Frontiers brings together the most vital and energetic voices around; whether promising young scholar or veteran of gay activism, each contributor is helping to move the debate into uncharted territory.
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