A small boy and others
Subtitle: imitation and initiation in American culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
By: by Michael Moon.
Series: Series Q
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Gays in popular culture.; Gay men in literature.; Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Description: In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances, ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.

Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings.

Moon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of "queerness." Rich in historical detail and insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of queer invention.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-192) and index.