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Gustaf af Geijerstam`s Medusas hufvud (Medusa`s Head, 1895) has gone down in Swedish literary history as one of the "account-settling novels" ("uppgörelseromaner") of the late nineteenth century. If patriarchy, as Sedgwick proposes, relies on the simultaneous fostering of male bonds (with the concomitant establishing of exclusively male spheres of society) and the violent exclusion of homosexuality, the act of drawing them back together becomes a revealing and important endeavor. This schematic correspondence, however, only scratches the surface of the significance of the Medusa motif as a symbol of male bonding . . .
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