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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Atkins, Gary L. (1949-....)
Titre(s) : Imagining gay paradise [Texte imprimé] : Bali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore / Gary L. Atkins
Édition : Southeast Asia ed
Publication : Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books ; London
: Eurospan [distributor], 2012
Description matérielle : x, 316 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 cm
Comprend : At the end of empires. The triple supremacy ; The problem with home (1) ; Men of
the feast: Saranrom ; The escape from Nosferatu ; A new man for Siam --Magical reality,
running amok ; Men of the dance ; The triple taboo ; A pivotal year ; A final
chord ; Dancing with Ezekiel ; Transition: a murder for paradise ; The hope for
a better age. Nanyang family ; Men of the feast: Babylon ; The problem with home
(2) ; A new man for Thailand ; Men of the net ; A pivotal day --Dancing under the
Merlion ; A new nation.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-305) and index
"The book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It
studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how
they used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore to create a sense of
refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood
and masculinity. For gender studies and Southeast Asian studies, it provides a 'queer
reading' of Walter Spies, a gay German painter who in the 1930s helped turn Bali into
an island imagined as an ideal male aesthetic state. Secondly, the book provides a
historical account of the absorption of Western notions of romantic heterosexual monogamy
in Thailand during the reign of King Rama VI and the resistance to those notions expressed
through an architectural paradise called Babylon founded by a Thai known as Khun Toc.
Finally, it describes the 'cyber-paradise' of Fridae.com created by a young Singaporean
named Stuart Koe. Collectively, the study examines the pursuit of sexual justice,
the ideologies of manhood they challenged, and the geographic and online spaces they
created."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Spies, Walter (1895-1942) -- Influence
Homosexuels masculins -- Conditions sociales -- Asie du Sud-Est
Homosexualité et art
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789888083237 (hbk.). - ISBN 9888083236 (hbk.). - ISBN 9789888083244 (pbk.).
- ISBN 9888083244 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42606938d
Notice n° :
FRBNF42606938
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