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Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film Paperback - 2004

by G. Cestaro (Editor)


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Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. While fully cognizant of the theoretical risks inherent in trans-historicizing sexuality, the contributors to this volume share an interest in probing the multi-form dynamics of sexual desires in Italian texts through the centuries. The volume aims not to promote the mistaken notion of a single homosexuality through history. Rather, these essays together upset and undo the equally misguided assumption of an omnipresent heterosexuality through time by uncovering the various, complex workings of desire in texts from all periods. Somewhat paradoxically, a kind of queer canon results. These essays open a much-needed critical space in the Italian tradition wherein fixed definitions of sexual identity collapse. Queer Italia is the first and only work of its kind in Italian criticism. As such, it will be of interest to a wide audience of Italianists, medieval to modern, and queer cultural theorists.

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Between the years 1303 and 1307 and again in 1309, Dominican friar Giordano of Pisa (ca. 1260-1311) undertook an active and popular preaching ministry in the city of Florence.

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  • Title Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film
  • Author G. Cestaro (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition Fi
  • Pages 242
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004-08-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780312240264 / 0312240260
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.42 x 0.54 in (20.98 x 13.77 x 1.37 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: Italy
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Homosexuality in literature, Homosexuality in motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003066427
  • Dewey Decimal Code 850.935

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2005, Page 1027

About the author

GARY P. CESTARO is Associate Professor of Italian language and literature at DePaul University in Chicago.
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