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Colonialism and Homosexuality
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.766
EAN: 9780415196161
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0415196167
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: December 23, 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge
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Editorial Review:
Colonial lands, which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century included most of Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean, provided a haven for many Europeans whose sexual inclinations did not fit neatly into the constraints of European society. This work is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of liaisons, including those of famous men such as Cecil Rhodes, E.M Forster or André Gide, and the historical situations which produced both the Europeans and their non-Western lovers. Each of the case studies is a micro-history of a particular colonial situation, a sexual encounter and its wider implications for cultural and political life.
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Rating: - excellent considering the little information available
once upon a time, two countries, england and france, became soooo powerful that they decided to create empires stretching from one end of the globe to the other, and who better to do some of the grunt work than gay men, who were unable to live their lives freely in mother countries which shunned and repressed them, who were much more interested than their heterosexual counterparts in learning about new languages, religions and cultures and who had a whole new world of sexual opportunity opened up ... Read More
Rating: - Argh! Someone stole my idea for a dissertation!
It's about time someone wrote this book. In this historical text, an Australian scholar details how colonial travels affected what we would now call gay men and how gay men affected colonialism. In the first half of the book, Robert Aldrich how this phenomenon occurred for painters, poets, businessmen, and political activists, and men in other professions. In the latter half of the book, he discusses this phenomenon region by region (Papua New Guinea, North Africa, South Asia, etc). Included in ... Read More
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