Description
Book SynopsisThis book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of queer subjects who engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration as they generated new ways of approaching kinship.
Table of ContentsPart I. Queering Kinship/Kinship as Queer Politics: 1. The son of Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitanism and textual kinship; 2. “Out and out from the family to the community”: The Housmans and the politics of queer sibling devotion; Part II. Queer retreat and cosmopolitan community: 3. An extraordinary marriage: The Mackenzies and the queer cosmopolitanism of Capri; 4. Bachelorhood and transnational adoption: Harold Acton in China; Part III. Decadent Modernism and Eroticized Kinship: 5. Richard Bruce Nugent's 'Geisha Man': Harlem decadence, multiraciality, and incest fantasy; 6. Hallowed incest: Eric Gill, Indian aesthetics, and queer Catholicism.
