Double Melancholy

Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man

C.E. Gatchalian

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Arsenal Pulp Press
27 June 2019

Social services & welfare, criminology

Accordingto Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: thelifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experiences, and throughwhich they construct their own identity. In this beguiling book, anintroverted, anxious, ambitious, artistically gifted queer Filipino-Canadianboy finds solace, inspiration, and a 'syllabus for living' in art - works ofliterature and music, from the children's literary classic Anne of Green Gables to the music of Maria Callas. But theircontribution to his intellectual, emotional, and spiritual edification beliesthe fact that they were largely heteronormative and white, which had the effectof invisibilizing him as a queer person of color.

Part memoir, part culturalcommentary, and a hybrid of besotted aesthetic appreciation and unsparingcritique, Double Melancholy is by turns a passionate love letter to artand an embattled examination of its oppressive complicity with the society thatproduces it, and the depths to which art both enriches and colonizes us.

By: C.E. Gatchalian
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781551527536
ISBN 10: 1551527537
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 27 June 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

C.E. Gatchalian is a queer Filipino-Canadian author and theatre-maker born, raised and based on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver). A graduate of the the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing program, he is a two-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award whose plays have been produced locally, nationally and internationally. Double Melancholy is his first non-fiction book.

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Double Melancholy

Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man

C.E. Gatchalian

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