Review of claude simons histoire, the new republic june 9, 1968. A public health crisis has been treated like an unprecedented sexual threat 198. That force was explicitly tied to a refusal of historicizing consolations. School of english graduate colloquium organized and sponsored by the centre for creative and critical thought, in collaboration with the centre for the study of sexual dissidence. Leo bersani s career spans more than 50 years, and extends across a wide spectrum of. Leo bersani to the memory of robert hagopian these people have sex twenty to thirty times a night.
Wednesday 7 october, fulton a lecture theatre, 57 p. Bersanis reputation as a queer thinker rests mainly on two texts, the essay is the rectum a grave. When this is practised for a year, with a man having three thousand. He focus on the notion of the media and the government during the rise of the epidemic, to erroneously focus on gay men as agents who deliberately want to see the disease spread. T, an underground group devoted to helping women experience their deepest sexual fantasies, his reaction broke cassies heart. The desexualizing of homophobia implicit in this quote from. He was elected a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences in 1992. Leo bersani s career spans more than 50 years, and extends across a wide. Because it is a collection of essays, lectures, and interviews, it gets a tad repetitive at times, but this repetition is also helpful in that it approaches the same questions from a variety. Description of the book is the rectum a grave and other essays. Over the course of a distinguished career, critic leo bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Bersanis readings are refreshing because they take queer politics to task from a standpoint of wanting to radicalize it and to do so through gay erotics, not platitudes about how queerness works against the system. Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, leo bersani now addresses homosexuality in modern culture. Leo bersani and the universe connecting repositories.
It is the prospect that gays will create as yet unforeseen kinds of relationships that many people cannot tolerate kritzman 301. For matters of precision please consult the original pdf. Having learned to support and grieve for our lovers and friends. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, is the rectum a grave. Is the rectum a grave and other essays leo bersani. To ask the question this way is of course to risk domesticating the analytic force of leo bersanis 1987 essay of almost that name. Project muse rethinking sexuality in thom gunns the man. The showstopping example is leo bersanis opening line in is the rectum a grave. Read download the sexual life of catherine m pdf pdf. Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts baudelaire, huysmans, wilde, genet, joyce, and schrebers memoirs, this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. The sexual life of catherine m pdf download pdf book. Publication date 1988 topics aids disease, sida, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, public policy, social environment publisher. Friendship as a way of life is a pulsing and intriguing volume tom roach has done an inspiring job of reminding us how much there is to consider within the elliptical references foucault made to friendship in his lectures and interviews. A man comes along and goes from anus to anus and in a single night will act as a mosquito transferring infected cells on his penis.
Because it is a collection of essays, lectures, and interviews, it gets a tad repetitive at times, but this repetition is also helpful in that. Leo bersani born 1931 is an american literary theorist and professor emeritus of french at the university of california, berkeley. How should we account for the relatively unexpected appearance of samuel beckett on the final page of leo bersanis homos. Download is the rectum a grave and other essays ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Aids is effectively being used as a pretext throughout the west to justify calls for increasing legislation and regulation of those. He was elected a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences in 1992 bibliography. A bibliography of the work of leo bersani books marcel proust. Leo bersani is professor emeritus of french at the university of california, berkeley. The only thing that cassie robichaud has ever really wanted is will foret, the love of her life. Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality monique wittig, one is not born a woman. Dec 15, 2009 leo bersani is professor emeritus of french at the university of california, berkeley. Leo bersani and the universe brian glavey is the rectum a grave. Pdf bersani is widely seen as a psychoanalytically engaged writer, a fact that may push away those not keen on psychoanalysis. Over the course of a distinguished career, critic leo bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing.
In 1987, at the height of the aids crisis, leo bersani asked the question is the rectum a. Click download or read online button to is the rectum a grave and other essays book pdf for free now. Pdf is the rectum a grave and other essays 2009 book. Intimate atmospheres queer theory in a time of extinctions neel ahuja prologue. Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay lifeand, with aids, on gay death. Bersanis reputation as a queer thinker rests mainly on two texts, the essay. Bersani thinks that we should focus on this shattering as a key aspect of sexuality. In how to have promiscuity in an epidemicthe final essay in aids. Pdf bersani is widely seen as a psychoanalytically engaged writer, a fact that may push away those not keen on. Sep 25, 20 written during the height of the aids crisis during the late 1980s and a few years prior to eve kosofsky sedgwicks groundbreaking epistemology of the closet, leo bersani s striking essay titled is the rectum a grave. By what abject logic can beckett be linked with the three gay outlawsgide, proust, and, most proximately, genetwhose writing is the main subject of bersanis concluding chapter.
Leo bersani born 16 april 1931 is an american literary theorist and professor emeritus of french at the university of california, berkeley. Develops foucaults late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary glbt political strategy. Camal ironies david kurnick intimacies, by leo bersani and adam phillips, the university of chicago press. Ultimately, if the rectum is a grave in which the masculine idealof proud subjectivity is buried, then it. Homos elaborates on bersanis controversial but brilliant essay is the rectum a. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theoryhis famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, is the rectum a grave. Click download or read online button to istherectumagraveandotheressays book pdf for free now. Reflections on the subculture of barebacking, chicago. The sexual life of catherine m download ebook pdf, epub. Fifteen years ago, leo bersani began is the rectum a grave.
In his chapters on contemporary queer theory, on foucault and psychoanalysis, on the politics of sadomasochism, and on the image of. Download istherectumagraveandotheressays ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Participating in the fields selfdefinition in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they bookend its formative period. Is the rectum a grave bersani explicitly rejects oldstyle feminism as it is represented by andrea. It is after this move that bersani returns to the discussion of aids and the violence it induces.
As bersani famously proposes in is the rectum a grave. To ask the question this way is of course to risk domesticating the analytic force of leo bersani s 1987 essay of almost that name. Cultural analysis cultural activism, an influential collection of essays originally published in 1987the writer and activist douglas crimp announces the beginning of a new phase in gay mens responses to the epidemic. Is the rectum a grave and other essays by leo bersani. Leo bersani aids in the two berlins john borneman how to have promiscuity in an epidemic douglas crimp.
Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, leo bersani now addresses homosexuality in america. Leo bersani asserts that those effects of power which, as foucault has argued, are inherent in the relational itself can perhaps most easily be exacerbated, and polarized into relations of mastery and subordination, in. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the genderisation of its representation, the penetrated male offers new. He also taught at wellesley college and rutgers university. Leo bersani and conflicts in contemporary feminism rafeeq hasan rp 110 novdec 2001 micropolitics leo bersani and con. More worryingly, this logic extended to isolationist and even homicidal logic against hiv sufferers around the world, leading leo bersani to ask in in 1987 is the rectum a grave. Download istherectumagraveandotheressays ebook pdf or read online books in pdf. Bibliography 201 in issues in contemporary criticism, ed. Ultimately, if the rectum is a grave in which the masculine idealof proud subjectivity is buried, then it should be celebrated for its very potential for death 222. He is the author of homos and coauthor, with adam phillips, of intimacies, also published by the university of chicago press. Written during the height of the aids crisis during the late 1980s and a few years prior to eve kosofsky sedgwicks groundbreaking epistemology of the closet, leo bersanis striking essay titled is the rectum a grave. Borrowing its title from a 1981 interview of michel foucault, friendship as a way of life develops the philosophers late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary glbt political strategy. March 12, bersani is the rectum a grace by leo bersani. The telephone and its queerness michel foucault, the history of sexuality, volume 1.
After delving into the legal and social ramifications faced by pwas, especially gay men during the pinnacle of the aids crisis, bersani makes a. Tom roach brings to life foucaults scant but suggestive writings on friendship. Bersanis identification of misogyny at the heart of the antigay hysteria as well as his call to arms to rethink the sex act itself seems to anticipate sedgwicks. Mit press, 1988 douglas crimp, how to have promiscuity in an epidemic, aids.