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Biografisk notat
Ian Fleishman is the inaugural chair of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino (Northwestern University Press)."Fleishman takes us on an eye-opening journey in which narrative flamboyance knowingly and craftily signifies any number of shifting, elusive, and evolving aspects of queer sexuality; this was a story waiting for Fleishman to tell it."âMichael Lucey, University of California, Berkeley <br /><br />âA scintillating book. <i>Flamboyant Fictions </i>is highly original and beautifully written. Fleishman offers elegant, economical, and brilliant reflections on difficult questions about queerness and art.ââEmma Wilson, University of Cambridge
This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from literary modernism to the German New Wave and the present day. Ian Fleishman exposes a tradition of flamingly failed passing that is itself a surreptitious mode of passing: the flaunting of queer style as an intentionally unconvincing cover for queer content. Exploring a corpus of films and novels by AndrĂ Gide, Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, FranĂois Ozon, and Xavier Dolan, among others, Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing intervenes in trenchant debates about queer agency, visibility, negativity, and disidentification. Mapping queer strategies of storytelling onto queer practices of self-invention, Flamboyant Fictions wagers that it is precisely in instances of conflict between these auteurs and their inventions that narrative becomes a laboratory for testing the sovereignty and self-determination of queer identity.
Introduction: Agency as Failed Passing
Part 1: Counterfeit Identities
Chapter 1:Â Counterfeit Narratives: AndrĂ Gideâs Queer Coinages
Chapter 2:Â Counterfeit Sexualities: Performativity in Jean Genet
Part 2: Embodied Abstraction
Chapter 3:Â Camp/Abject: Queer Failure in Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Chapter 4:Â The Wound in Bloom: Werner Schroeterâs Gay Stigmata
Part 3: Token Subversion
Chapter 5:Â New Camp Extremity: Adaptation and Experimentation in FranĂois Ozon
Chapter 6:Â Not Nothing: Xavier Dolanâs Vanishing Gay Aesthetic
Coda:Â Flamboyant Fictions
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