Diarmuid Hester

Gebundenes Buch

Nothing Ever Just Disappears

Seven Hidden Queer Histories

Beschreibung

Both thought-provoking and eye-opening, this radical new history of seven queer lives, including Josephine Baker in Paris and E.M. Forster in Cambridge, illuminates the connections to where they lived, who they loved and the art they created, and celebrates freedom, survival and the hidden places of the imagination.

Autor

Dr. Diarmuid Hester is a writer and academic based at the University of Cambridge. He is a radical cultural historian and an authority on sexually dissident literature, art, film, and performance. Diarmuid is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English at the University of Cambridge, and a research associate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, the Irish Times, gorse, n+1, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper (University of Iowa Press, 2020).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pegasus Books
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781639365555
• ISBN-10: 1639365559
• Artikelnr.: 68325346

Rezensionen

Nothing Ever Just Disappears is about what happens to a house or a room, or a whole town or city, when it is transformed by a powerful sensibility. With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic Colm Toibin