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Guy Davidson Guy Davidson i(A90017 works by)
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1 Accidental Elder Guy Davidson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , December vol. 25 no. 2 2019; (p. 319-322)
— Review of Unrequited Love : Diary of an Accidental Activist Dennis Altman , 2019 single work autobiography 'The unrequited love foregrounded in the title of Dennis Altman’s memoir refers to his attachment to the United States, an attachment that in some ways reflects the postwar relationship between Australia and what until recently we were calling ‘the world’s remaining superpower’. Altman’s recollection of his and, more generally, Australia’s unreciprocated passion for the US stays true to his longheld conviction that the recording of personal experience should incorporate political analysis and vice versa. Altman’s interests rove far beyond this not-so-special special relationship, however, gathering up multiple manifestations of the global and local sexual politics with which his name is now associated. Altman became involved in the gay liberation movement while living and studying in New York in the early 1970s and his Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation (1971) was one of the most sophisticated accounts to emerge from that movement. A long and celebrated career as an academic, writer, and activist in gay politics and AIDS organizing followed. Altman’s books have mainly continued his interest in sexual politics and include The Homosexualization of America (1982), AIDS in the Mind of America (1986), Global Sex (2001), and The End of the Homosexual? (2013). He has also published on the more ‘general’ Australian political scene, including a previous book 51st State? (2006) that also tackled the relationship between Australia and the US. A regular contributor to venues such as The Conversation and ABC Radio, Altman remains one of Australia’s most consistently insightful and interesting political commentators.' (Introduction)
1 Displaying the Monster : Patrick White, Sexuality, Celebrity Guy Davidson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 25 no. 1 2010; (p. 1-18) The essay traces the interconnections between aesthetic mode, sexual disclosure, and literary celebrity in White's work and career. 'From early on in his career, White appears to have been convinced of a close link between ... sexuality and literary artistry. White's autobiographical writings, his correspondence, and his fiction elaborate upon this idea, moving between notions of identity as performance and identity as essence. In so doing, his work indicates his uneasy relations to his homosexuality and his celebrity status, both of which he simultaneously embraced and disavowed' (2).
1 Minor Literature, Microculture: Fiona McGregor's Chemical Palace Guy Davidson , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 64 no. 3 2004; (p. 140-153)
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