An exploration of the intersection of colonialism and homosexuality in fiction and travel writing from Robinson Crusoe to the present, this volume brings together two dynamic fields of academic inquiry: colonial discourse analysis, which considers literary texts as expressions of colonial power; and queer theory, which interrogates the representation, enforcement, and subversions of sexualities in literature and culture. These writers reexamine the work of Kipling, Conrad, Forster, Lessing, and others, ranging from male adventure stories to postcolonial novels. This volume will provoke and inform readers concerned with gender and sexuality, colonial history and literature, or with any of the works and authors revisited--and reexperienced--here.
- ISBN10 0816637644
- ISBN13 9780816637645
- Publish Date 15 May 2003 (first published 6 May 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English