Discusses the history, representation, and theorization of perversion and shows its relevance for understanding social relations, especially racism, liberalism, class antagonism, abjection, and multiculturalism, as well as considering its role in the...
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Discusses the history, representation, and theorization of perversion and shows its relevance for understanding social relations, especially racism, liberalism, class antagonism, abjection, and multiculturalism, as well as considering its role in the esta
Includes bibliographical references ([p. 211]-216) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Molly Anne Rothenberg and Dennis Foster, Introduction. Beneath the Skin: Perversion and Social Analysis; Dennis Foster, Fatal West: W. S. Burroughs's Perverse Destiny; Bruce Fink, Perversion; Octave Mannoni, ""I Know Well, but All the Same . . .""; Nina Schwartz, Exotic Rituals and Family Values in Exotica; Slavoj Žižek, The Ambiguity of the Masochist Social Link; James Penney, Confessions of a Medieval Sodomite; Michael P. Bibler, ""As If Set Free into Another Land"": Homosexuality, Rebellion, and Community in William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner
E. L. McCallum, Contamination's GerminationsWorks Cited; Contributors; Index