y separately published work icon The Journey of the Queer 'I': Spirituality and Subjectivity in Life Narratives by Gay Men single work   thesis  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 The Journey of the Queer 'I': Spirituality and Subjectivity in Life Narratives by Gay Men
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* Contents derived from the , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Searching for the 'Home Self': The Narrativisation of Subjectivity in Christopher Isherwood's Life Writing, Victor Marsh , single work criticism
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)
 (p. 1-163)
The Boy in the Yellow Dress (Scenes From a Life), Victor Marsh , single work autobiography
'[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)
 (p. 1-206)
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