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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

      1. So I have some thoughts on Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Louisa May Alcott, the rise of gay culture in the 20th century, buddy comedies, Kirk/Spock slash fiction, Leslie Fiedler, Freudian homophobia, a few other things.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

      2. I did a podcast with @chick_in_kiev where we talked about Melville & Moby Dick, with a focus on the homoeroticism of the Ishmael/Queequeg relationship. The two are in fact described as a married couple and certainly act like one.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

      3. One important context for Melville's homoeroticism was the larger queerness of 19th century American literature: (Cooper, Whitman, Dickinson, Lincoln, Alcott, Henry James) -- a product of a frontier society where genders were segregated & artistry considered fey.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

      4. Melville was famously forgotten by the larger world in the last few decades of his life. The Melville revival, sparks of which were visible in the 1890s with Havelock Ellis' enthusiasm, was largely the work of gay enthusiasts claiming an ancestor.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

      5. An article in The Nation and Athenaeum in 1922 alludes (in coded terms) to the gay enthusiasm for Melville's stories of many sailors. Gay artists & scholars (Newton Arvin, F.O. Matthiessen, Benjamin Britten, E.M. Forster) were among the major advocates for Melville.pic.twitter.com/dfUrbbRU3w

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

      6. In 1948 in Partisan Review, Leslie Fiedler wrote a famous essay ("Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!") arguing that the dominant archetype of 19th century American culture was the interracial homosexual love story (as seen in Cooper, Melville & Twain).

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

      7. Fiedler argued that American writers repeatedly told tales of interracial male couples (Hawk-eye/Chingachgook Ishmael/Queequeg, Huck/Jim) who bond over a shared disdain for the constrictions of civilization (as embodied by white women).

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

          8. Fiedler's essay and his subsequent working out of this idea suffers from a kind of Freudian homophobia. Fiedler thought the homoerotic element of American literature was proof of immaturity -- that a real literature would have stories of mature heterosexual relationships.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

          9. But leaving aside Fiedler's normative judgement, the pattern he recognized does exist -- and in fact continues to show up in the long tradition of the buddy comedy and in many cop movies. Fiedler himself saw Captain Kirk & Mr. Spock as continuations of the theme.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

          10. The function of fan fiction is often to take the latent homoeroticism of such stories and make it explicit -- Kirk/Spock slash fiction being the most obvious. But you hardly need to do Ishmael/Queequeg slash fiction -- it's all pretty much in the text.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2020

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          11. Anyways, if you want to hear me and the delightful @chick_in_kiev develop these ideas at greater length, you can listen to this podcast.https://twitter.com/mobydickenergy/status/1237064313841618944 …

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          Moby Dick Energy @mobydickenergy
          New Moby Dick Energy with the legendary @HeerJeet!!!! We talk about the Melville revival of the '20s, homoeroticism in 19th-century American literature, Ishmael and Queequeg as Kirk and Spock, and being non-Christian in America. https://www.buzzsprout.com/814783/2961499 
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        1. ((( Jack Lincoln )))‏ @jackifus 9 Mar 2020
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          I feel so dumb that I didn’t see that pattern. Yowza. Thanks for pointing it out.

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        1. Christopher Ames‏ @SagePrez 9 Mar 2020
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          Assuming you know Eve Kosofsky-Sedgewick’s discussion of homosocial literary relations in this regard. Builds on Fiedler in more contemporary gender theory context.

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