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Article: Freaks, Monks and Dionysiasts: Leslie Fiedler's Latest Look at Life
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Saul Rosenberg
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12-27-1996
Freaks, Monks and Dionysiasts: Leslie Fiedler's Latest Look at Life on. the Margins
By SAUL ROSENBERG
In 1952 Leslie Fiedler, a long-time professor of American literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo, published "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!" an essay on Mark Twain arguing that great American literature harbored at its center a myth of homoerotic interethnic bonding. It was, in the early '50s, a maverick idea, to say the least -- but it was also sound (Huck and Jim, Ishmael and Queequeg, Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook...), and it soon became a touchstone for American literary criticism. Since then, Mr. Fiedler has made an entire ...
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