Male sexuality under surveillance: the office in American literature
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1. Verfasser: Thompson, Graham (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City University of Iowa Press ©2003
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-243) and index
The rhetoric of the office in Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- The business of sexuality in The rise of Silas Lapham -- The businessman and the fairy child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt -- From Babbittry to Gray flannel via tropical incoporation -- Sloan Wilson's Gray flannel man in the queer organization -- Fear, paranoia, and self-pity in Joseph Heller's Something happened -- Shoelaces, social energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The mezzanine and The fermata -- Microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the 1990s
Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day, a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical discussion of the textualization of the gay male body as a device for producing a taxonomy of male-male relations. The combination of the
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ISBN:0877458480
1587294400
9780877458487
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