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041 0 $aEnglish
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100 1 $aPhrydas, JH$4auth
245 10 $aImperial Physique
260 $aBrooklyn, NY$bpunctum books$c2019
300 $a1 electronic resource (158 p.)
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
520 $a"In 2008, JH Phrydas wrote a story about how bodies talk without words. He wanted the story to not just describe the silent ritual of nonverbal communication but to perform it. The interaction would be visceral – the exchange melancholic, yet full of lust. He wanted words to retain the unsayable: the subtle movements of a body in heat. In the years since, Phrydas kept rewriting this story, using different techniques, different syntaxes and forms, in hopes that he would find a successful method of gestural writing.

Imperial Physique is a collection of these attempts. They explore the way our bodies hover between animal and human, civil and wild. The bleakness – and underlying verve – of imagining Western empires in decline serve as a backdrop for a lone figure searching city streets, decaying architecture, and sand dunes for some type of physical connection. What arises is the loss of – and longing for – touch at the edges of imperialism, historical violence, and personal shame."
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546 $aEnglish
650 7 $aOf specific Gay interest$2bicssc
650 7 $aGay studies (Gay men)$2bicssc
653 $aqueer studies
653 $aLGBT studies
653 $acruising
653 $awriting
653 $adesire
653 $asexuality
653 $atheory fiction
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856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23804$70$zOAPEN Library: description of the publication