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Award-winning author (The Zuni Man-Woman) and spearhead of the gay men's spirituality movement in the U.S., Roscoe has assembled and annotated a diverse, sometimes irritating, sometimes involving collection of poems, stories and myths that either explicitly or implicitly engage archetypal gay experience. Some of his choices are intriguing and amusing?Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" becomes in context a fable of coming out. Classical figures?Ganymede, Hyacinthus, Endymion?are admirably well represented, as are figures from Native American myth. The "two-spirit" of Zuni mythology is an empowered "third gender" figure that Roscoe presents as a positive alternative to the Oedipal narrative of the homosexual's genesis. Less satisfactory are Roscoe's annotations, many of which are self-indulgently autobiographical; one can't help wondering if the book sometimes blurs the distinction between what is personally meaningful and what is genuinely archetypal.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A fascinating collection of myths and stories from around the world that offers gay men a key to discovering the myths and heroes of their lives.
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Award-winning author (The Zuni Man-Woman) and spearhead of the gay men's spirituality movement in the U.S., Roscoe has assembled and annotated a diverse, sometimes irritating, sometimes involving collection of poems, stories and myths that either explicitly or implicitly engage archetypal gay experience. Some of his choices are intriguing and amusing?Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" becomes in context a fable of coming out. Classical figures?Ganymede, Hyacinthus, Endymion?are admirably well represented, as are figures from Native American myth. The "two-spirit" of Zuni mythology is an empowered "third gender" figure that Roscoe presents as a positive alternative to the Oedipal narrative of the homosexual's genesis. Less satisfactory are Roscoe's annotations, many of which are self-indulgently autobiographical; one can't help wondering if the book sometimes blurs the distinction between what is personally meaningful and what is genuinely archetypal.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A fascinating collection of myths and stories from around the world that offers gay men a key to discovering the myths and heroes of their lives.
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- Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods: An Exploration into the Religious Significance of Male Homosexuality in World Perspective (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) by Ronald Long in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hans Christian Andersen: The Fan Dancer (Allison & Busby Biography) by Alison Prince on page 211, and Back Matter
- Best of Friction: The First Five Years by Jesse Grant in Back Matter
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