Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation

Rating a difficult book such as this 5 stars obviously implies that I am comparing the book to its peers: works of scholarship in gay and lesbian studies that seek to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and to say something synthetic and theoretical about the very possibility of "representing" gay men (in this case) and lesbians.Jackson knows contemporary gay fiction and the critical language about narrative, he knows gay cinema and the critical language about cinema, and he knows psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory like the back of his hand. His book is a tour de force that relates steamy fiction and film to heady theory in useful, clever, and illuminating ways.