Les Brookes

Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall

Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that gay fiction is torn between assimilative and radical impulses, this study focuses on fiction by White, Holleran, Leavitt, Cunningham, Hollinghurst, Cooper, Mars-Jones and others, positing the existence of two distinct strands of gay fiction, where opposing impulses are at work within individual texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780415962445
• ISBN-10: 0415962447
• Artikelnr.: 25006662

Autorenporträt

Les Brookes is an associate lecturer at The Open University, tutoring in twentieth-century literature. He has written articles for Overhere: A European Journal of American Culture and given papers at Warwick University and the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Gay Male Fiction since Stonewall: The Contextual Framework
Chapter Two: Divergent Lines of Dissent: Wilde to Stonewall
Chapter Three: "The Potency, Magnetism and Promise of Gay Self-Disclosure":
Paradise Found?
Chapter Four: Centripetal Tendencies: Gays, Heterosexuality and the Family
Chapter Five: The Gay Outlaw: Sexual Radicalism and Transgression
Chapter Six: The AIDS Epidemic: Victory to a Virus?
Coda: Pressures of the New Millennium
Appendix: An Interview with Edmund White
Notes
Bibliography
Index