Converting Fiction
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Author | : James E. Bennett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2024-06-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1350289841 |
For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation. Their so-called treatments or therapies have taken various forms over the decades, ranging from medical (including psychiatric or psychological) rehabilitation approaches, to counselling, and religious healing. Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction provides an in-depth exploration of the disturbing phenomenon of gay conversion 'therapy' and its fictional and autobiographical representations across a broad range of films and books such as But I'm a Cheerleader! (1999), This is What Love in Action Looks Like (2011) and Boy Erased (2018). In doing so, the volume emphasizes the powerful role the arts and media play in communicating stories around conversion practices. Approaching the timely and urgent subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, contributors utilize film theory, queer theory, literary theory, mental health and social movement theory to discuss the medicalization and pathologizing of queer people, the power of institutions ranging from church, psychiatry and family (sometimes in alliance), and the real and fictional voices of survivors.
Author | : David H. Darst |
Publisher | : Unc Department of Romance Studies |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
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This study examines the many ways in which seventeenth-century Spanish authors manipulated the expected outcomes of secular literature to create religiously motivated endings prompted by some kind of conversion. In the late sixteenth century, the prevalent technique was to transform the secular material entirely, a lo divino. After 1598, however, writers developed the ingenious procedure of ostensibly following a secular account of events but subverting it by inserting an unanticipated religious ending. The specific kinds of conversion at closure examined here are the appropriation of earlier genres; conversion of non-Christian literary types; personal conversion of the native Spaniard through the Catholic ritual of confession, penitence, and absolution; conversion of the nation's historical material; and conversion of the very landscape upon which Christians walk in their pilgrimage through life.
Author | : Dorothea Conyers |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Author | : Beckie Weinheimer |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780670061525 |
After moving from Arizona to Maine, sixteen-year-old Kate tries to recover from her father's death as she resists her mother's dogmatic religious beliefs and attempts to find a new direction to her life.
Author | : Alexander Hamilton Thompson |
Publisher | : London : J. Murray |
Total Pages | : 856 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Robins |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1908 |
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Author | : A. Markley |
Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Dramatically expanding the boundaries of the British “Jacobin” novel, Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s analyzes the works of a wide range of British reformists writing in the 1790s, including William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and Maria Edgeworth, who reshaped the conventions of contemporary fiction to position the novel as a progressive political tool. Rather than aiming to launch a bloody revolution, these authors worked to initiate social and political reform in such areas as women’s rights, abolition, the Jewish question, and the leveling of the class system in Britain by converting the individual reader, one reader at a time.
Author | : James Blyth |
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Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Total Pages | : 1368 |
Release | : 1920 |
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