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Imagining gay paradise = Bali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagining gay paradise/ Gary L. Atkins.
Reminder of title:	Bali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore /
Author:	Atkins, Gary,
Published:	Hong Kong [China] :Hong Kong University Press, : c2012,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 316 p.).
Notes:	Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Web sites for sexual minorities - Singapore. -
Subject:	Thailand - Foreign relations - 1782-1945. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9789888053896 (electronic bk.)

Imagining gay paradise = Bali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore /
Atkins, Gary,1949-

Imagining gay paradiseBali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore /[electronic resource] :Gary L. Atkins. - Hong Kong [China] :Hong Kong University Press,c2012 - 1 online resource (x, 316 p.).

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-305) and index.

pt. 1. At the end of empires -- ch. 1. The triple supremacy -- ch. 2. The problem with home (1) -- ch. 3. Men of the feast : Saranrom -- ch. 4. The escape from Nosferatu -- ch. 5. A new man forSiam -- ch. 6. Magical reality, running amok -- ch. 7. Men of the dance -- ch. 8. The triple taboo -- ch. 9. A pivotal year -- ch. 10. A final chord -- ch. 11. Dancing with Ezekiel -- ch. 12. Transition : a murder for paradise --pt. 2. The hope for a better age -- ch. 13. Nanyang family -- ch. 14. Men of the feast : Babylon -- ch. 15. The problem with home (2) -- ch. 16. A new man for Thailand --ch. 17. Men of the Net -- ch. 18. A pivotal day -- ch. 19. Dancing under the merlion -- ch. 20. A new nation -- Postscript -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Mages of Manhood asks the question: How have gay/queer men in Southeast Asia used images of paradise to construct homes for themselves and for the different ideas of manhood they represent? Thebook examines how three gay men in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore have deployed differentideas of "paradise" over the past century to create a sense of refuge and to dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For thedisciplines of queer studies, gender studies, communication, and Southeast Asian studies, it provides (1) a "queer reading" of Walter Spies, a gay German painter who in the 1930s helped turned Bali into an islandimagined as an ideal male aesthetic state; (2) a historicalaccount ofthe absorption of Western notions of romantic heterosexual monogamy inThailand during thereign of King Rama VI, providing an analysis of his plays, and the subsequent resistance to those notions expressed through an erotic, architectural paradise called Babylon created by a post-World War II Thai named Khun Toc; and (3) an account and analysis of the"cyber-paradise" created by a young Singaporean named Stuart Koe. The book examines their pursuit of sexual justice, the ideologies of manhood they challenged, the different types of gay spaces they created (geographic, architectural, online), and the political obstacles they have encountered. Because of its historical sweep and its focus on the relationship between gay men and ideas of Edenic space, it makes an importantcontribution to understanding gay/queer life in Southeast Asia.

ISBN: 9789888053896 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Khun Toc
--Influence.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Web sites for sexual minorities
--Singapore.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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Thailand
--Foreign relations--1782-1945.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ76.2.S644 / A755 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 306.76620959

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