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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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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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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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 …Show this thread
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Was he contending that heterosexual relationships were *absent* in American literature?
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He was awful!
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There is homophobia in psychoanalytic theory. But there is also a lot of wonderful intersectional work where queer and psychoanalytic concerns converge. Fiedler In particular was behind the Curve on psychoanalysis, and does not represent the direction of the discourse at all.
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