Days of those made like me
Retrospective pleasure, sexual knowledge, and C. P. Cavafy’s homobiographics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11932607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dimitris Papanikolaou (0000-0002-4337-5705, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-277 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-0131 • E-ISSN: 1749-625X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1179/0307013113z.00000000031 |
| OpenAlex | W1995297292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article begins with a comparison between the anonymous Roman d’un inverti (1894/5) and Cavafy’s poem ‘Na μείνει’, and then proceeds to read Cavafy’s private notes and key erotic poems in the context of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses about non-normative sexuality. During that period, and in a discursive domain dominated by sexological case studies, the deviant sexual life story was published in order to titillate, check, control and medicalize. In Cavafy’s texts we see, instead, a network of homosexual life stories proposed as a platform for the conceptualization of novel sexual, aesthetic and social technologies, as well as a new ethics of contact
Art · Literature · Pleasure · Psychotherapist · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |