Journal article
Days of those made like me: retrospective pleasure, sexual knowledge, and C. P. Cavafy’s homobiographics
- Abstract:
- This essay begins with a comparison between the anonymous ‘Roman d’un inverti’ (1894/5) and Cavafy’s poem ‘Να μείνει’, and then proceeds to read C.P.Cavafy’s private notes and key erotic poems in the context of late 19th and early 20th century discourses about non-normative sexuality. During that period, and in a discursive domain dominated by sexological case studies, the deviant sexual life story was published with an aim to titillate, check, control and medicalize. In Cavafy’s texts we see, instead, a network of homosexual life-stories proposed as a platform for the conceptualization of novel sexual, aesthetic and social technologies, as well as a new ethics of contact.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Maney
- Journal:
- Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 261-277
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
- Edition:
- 2013
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1749-625X
- ISSN:
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0307-0131
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:315933
- UUID:
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uuid:ea24d33b-5ae0-4d94-99e5-e8b59a89a8d0
- Local pid:
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pubs:315933
- Source identifiers:
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315933
- Deposit date:
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2013-09-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham. The full text of this article is not available in ORA. You may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link above.
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