Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film

By Calvin Thomas

Book Overview

Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230600085
• ISBN13: 9780230600089
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.3"