Overview
Throughout history, literature about love between men has reflected contemporary ideas, prejudices, and discourses surrounding homosexuality. This book examines the literary images that have persisted over time in Western literature; it's populated by the schoolmates, sailors, soldiers, workers, police officers, and convicts that appear in books by a diverse set of authors, including Shakespeare, Proust, Foucault, and many others.Author Biography
Adrián Melo is an Argentinean researcher and professor of sociology and philosophy. He holds a doctorate in social sciences and a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Buenos Aires. He is the author of El amor de los muchachos: homosexualidad y literatura and the co-author of Obsesiones y fantasmas de la Argentina: El antisemitismo, Evita, los desaparecidos y Malvinas en la ficción literaria, among other books.