Queerly Cosmopolitan by Timothy Eugene Murphy

Author:Timothy Eugene Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030002961
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

A Bohemia of a Different Ilk

The galera regularly carves out a special time and space for itself—a form of sociality I call “nocturnal bohemia.” Spatially and temporally fragmented––taking place only at night and in changing locations and environments––nocturnal bohemia is where the galera momentarily manifests as an integrated whole. Rather than establishing a bohemia that is fixed in a specific area of the city, then, the galera’s bohemia crops up in the night in various and often unfamiliar locales.

Bohemia and the bohemian lifestyle are far from new and are often attributed to a trend taken up by artists in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. In her book, Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts, Elizabeth Wilson writes:

They were a new race of nomads, whose wandering life from attic to attic, and moonlight flits to avoid paying rent, made them seem like the popular stereotype of gypsies. Like gypsies they moved outside the normal restrictions of society; like gypsies they dressed with ragged flamboyance; like gypsies they rejected honest toil and thrift, preferring to live on their wits; and, just as the gypsies scraped by living by the exploitation of their suspect skills as fortune-tellers, confidence-tricksters, entertainers and even magicians, so new bands of writers and painters produced artefacts that seemed incomprehensible and therefore alarming, often immoral and sometimes disturbingly magical. (Wilson 2000: 21)

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