J. Neil C. Garcia

In other words, just because gays have been able to textualize themselves, it does not necessarily mean such textualizations are ultimately “good” for them. The theoretical concern over the violent dynamics of subversion and containment has been expressed by various oppositional intellectuals all over the world, and the implications of this so-called

“containment theory” are intriguingly relevant to this project, too; hence, they can only deserve some discussion of their own.