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''Diversity or Perversity?'' contributes to the burgeoning field of the history of sexuality in New Zealand. It draws from a range of narratological materials parliamentary debates and novels and short stories written by men with publicly avowed queer identities. This book explores how both normative identity and the category of the homosexual were constructed and mobilised in the public domain. It shows that members of parliament have engaged with an extensive tradition of defining and excluding; a process by which state and public discourses have constructed largely negative narratives of…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
''Diversity or Perversity?'' contributes to the
burgeoning field of the history of sexuality in New
Zealand. It draws from a range of narratological
materials parliamentary debates and novels and
short stories written by men with publicly avowed
queer identities. This book explores how both normative identity and the category of the
homosexual were constructed and mobilised in the
public domain. It shows that members of parliament
have engaged with an extensive tradition of defining
and excluding; a process by which state and public
discourses have constructed largely negative
narratives of the homosexual . At the same time,
fictional narratives offer an adjacent body of
knowledge and thought for queer men. This book posits
literature s position as an important and productive
space for queer resistance and critique. Drawing from
the works of a number of authors, ''Diversity or
Perversity?'' argues for a revaluing of fictional
narratives as active texts from which historians can
construct a matrix of cultural experience, while
allowing for the determining role such narratives
play in understanding gender and sexuality in New
Zealand.
Autorenporträt
Christopher Burke is a PhD student in Gender Studies and History
at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His thesis Literary
Lives: The Lives and Texts of Pre-liberation Homosexual New
Zealand Men explores the lives and literary output of several
New Zealand authors identified as homosexual and active as
writers in the years before 1972.