Double Melancholy

Name: Double Melancholy
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SKU: 9781551527536
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Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man

By C.E. Gatchalian

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Double Melancholy by C.E. Gatchalian explores the personal and societal challenges faced by those living at the intersection of multiple identities. It delves into the complexities of being an immigrant, queer, and a person of colour in contemporary society. Through poignant narratives, the book sheds light on the ongoing struggle for acceptance and the quest for self-identity amidst cultural and political tensions.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate personal narratives that delve into the intersections of identity, culture, and politics, particularly concerning the LGBTQ+ community and the complexities faced by those of mixed ancestry. This insightful work provides a reflective exploration of how societal and cultural influences affect one's personal and political landscapes.

Double Melancholy

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.

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According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experiences, and through which they construct their own identity. In this beguiling book, an introverted, anxious, ambitious, artistically gifted queer Filipino-Canadian boy finds solace, inspiration, and a 'syllabus for living' in art—works of literature and music, from the children's literary classic Anne of Green Gables to the music of Maria Callas. But their contribution to his intellectual, emotional, and spiritual edification belies the fact that they were largely heteronormative and white, which had the effect of invisibilizing him as a queer person of colour.

Part memoir, part cultural commentary, and a hybrid of besotted aesthetic appreciation and unsparing critique, Double Melancholy is by turns a passionate love letter to art and an embattled examination of its oppressive complicity with the society that produces it, and the depths to which art both enriches and colonises us.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781551527536

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 June 2019

Country: Canada

Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

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.