![]() ![]() ![]() Goldstein, animals are useful tropes for problems of identity because of the essential difference between beasts and humans (24). The depiction of animals, particularly in the form of the fable, has also been used to explore social anxiety about same-sex sexuality. ![]() 1 By locating queer relationships and practices in bucolic settings, “homophile pastoralism” (Shuttleton 134), or what I term “ecoqueerness,” reclassifies alternative sexualities (as well as peripheral societies) as “natural.” Yet ecoqueerness is not limited to love affairs between shepherds or sexual liaisons that unfold in the forest. F rom the celebration of pederasty in T heocritus’s “I dylls” to descriptions of male-to-male love in Walt Whitman’s “Calamus Poems,” the pastoral tradition has often functioned effectively to construct positive representations of sexual dissidence. ![]()
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