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A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol

A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol

Moon, Michael

Paperback

Series: Series Q

Literary CriticismGeneral SociologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0822321734
ISBN13: 9780822321736
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 29 1998
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon 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 the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings. He deftly engages notions of initiation and desire not within the traditional framework of sexual orientation but through the disorienting effects of imitation. Whether invoking the artist Joseph Cornell's early fascination with the Great Houdini or turning his attention to James's self-described initiation into style at the age of twelve-when he first encountered the homoerotic imagery in paintings by David, Géricault, and Girodet-Moon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of queerness.

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