Journal article
Sexuality, race and empire in Alan Hollinghurst's "A Thieving Boy" (1983)
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By returning to the very start of Alan Hollinghurst’s literary career, this article begins constructing a different narrative about this “gay” British author -- one in which sexuality, race, and empire are intimately connected, and in which sexual liberation is haunted by imperial histories of racial exploitation. Through a “contrapuntal” analysis of his 1983 Egyptian short story “A Thieving Boy”, the article complicates dominant “queer” interpretations which overlook the postimperial politic...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 394.3KB, Terms of use)
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- 10.1080/17449855.2016.1209849
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- Journal of Postcolonial Writing More from this journal
- Volume:
- 52
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 700-712
- Publication date:
- 2016-05-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-25
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1744-9863
- ISSN:
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1744-9855
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pubs:638143
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638143
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2016-08-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Informa UK Limited
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis Group
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