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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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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@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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Alternate theory -- the interracial buddy movies aren't homoerotic so much as they're a contrived effort to generate crossover appeal with (what was) two normally very distinct movie audiences (I do think that's collapsing a little).
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Well I never thought Lethal Weapon as a distant echo of Huck Finn, but perhaps you're right.
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Deleuze‘s ideas about American lit - and Melville in particular - bear on this: “a society without fathers”. https://www.on-curating.org/issue-40-reader/bartleby-or-the-formula.html#.XmaYCiQpDDs …
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