Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9888083244 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
An innovative, highly readable, nonfictional account of masculinity and gay male sexuality in Southeast Asia since the early 20th century. (Choice) . Highly recommended
His previous book, Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging, was published by the University of Washington Press in 2003 and received numerous accolades for its scholarship and quality of writing.. Gary L. A literary journalist and scholar, he specializes in gay media and communication issues, as well as in freedom of expression law. Atkins is a professor of communication at Seattle University in the United States
It studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. The book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. The writer rewards his readers with a richness of details, and stitches his huge canvas of events with literary flair, making it an easy read." -- Russell Heng Hiang Khng, author of Outlaws at the Table: Gay Activists in Singapore Civil Society. The writing is so propulsive and authoritative, yet full of poetry and depth, that anyone reading the book will take away something of value." -- Grant Hayter-Menzies, author of The Empress and Mrs. Atkins is a professor of communication at Seattle University in the United States. Secondly, the book provides a historical account of the absorption of Western notions of romantic heterosexual monogamy in Thailand during the reign of King Rama VI and the resistance to those notions expressed through an architectural paradise called Bab
"Tropical magic" according to cpby2k. Speculation about the sexual attitudes and proclivities of a bygone age in an alien culture can be great fun and devotees of the sport will find much to edify and entertain them in this deeply researched volume. Appropriately, the author includes the word 'imagining' in the title, perhaps alluding not only to the painter Walter Spies's wistfully erotic depictions of beautif. Eloquent, interesting and well-told history marjorie y. price I am now reading this amazing book. It is a non-fiction book that reads like a novel. The quiet, easy eloquence remind me of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez book and makes me eager to keep turning the pages. I started to read it as a hard-bound but have now paid to put it on my Kindle, so that I can easily take it with me. Gary Atkins is at the top of his craft.. "Gay in Southeast Asia" according to othoniaboys. This is not a history of male homosexuality in Southeast Asia, but it does present the reader with bits and pieces of that history, if by "history" one also includes fairly recent events. It deals with Bali, Bangkok and Singapore. The author should have divided the book into three distinct sections, one for each location. By presenting his facts as he does, switching back a