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Focuses on the narrative repositioning of the self in Isherwood's texts as exemplars of s range of issues surrounding gay spirituality. - from the Austhor's Abstract (p.iii)
'[A] narrative journey into and out of shame. Confronted with a ready-made, marginalised identity shaped by hostile discourses emanating from Family, Medicine, the Church, and the Law, a sissy boy struggles to recover the lost parts of self. With the help of spiritual practices taught by a young guru he is able to reclain a subjective positioning which heals his alienation and re-aligns him to a continuity of being with all that is.' - from the author's Abstract (p.iii)