‘‘I KnowWell, but All the Same . . .’’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Beneath the Skin: Perversion and Social Analysis 1
5. Fatal West: W. S. Burroughs’s Perverse Destiny 15
6. Perversion 38
7. ‘‘I KnowWell, but All the Same . . .’’ 68
8. Exotic Rituals and Family Values in Exotica 93
9. The Ambiguity of the Masochist Social Link 112
10. Confessions of a Medieval Sodomite 126
11. ‘‘As If Set Free into Another Land’’: Homosexuality, Rebellion, and Community in William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner 159
12. Contamination’s Germinations 187
13. Works Cited 211
14. Contributors 217
15. Index 219