Gay and lesbian literature since World War II : history and memory / Sonya L. Jones, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Sonya L.

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay peoples' writings, American--History and criticism.

Gay peoples' writings, American.

Homosexuality and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Homosexuality and literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Lesbians in literature.

Gay men in literature.

Physical Description:

241 p. ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Haworth Press, c1998.

Summary:

Chronicles the multifaceted explosion of gay and lesbian writing that has taken place in the second half of the twentieth century. Encompassing a wide range of subject matter and a balance of gay and lesbian concerns, it includes work by established scholars as well as young theoreticians and archivists who have initiated new areas of investigation. The contributors' examinations of this rich literary period make it easy to view the half-century from 1948 to 1998 as the Queer Renaissance.

Contents:

Calamus root : a study of American gay poetry since World War II / Walter Holland

Purloined Ladder : its place in lesbian history / Manuela Soares

"What is going on here?" : Baldwin's Another Country / Laura Quinn

Writing the fairy Huckleberry Finn : William Goyen's and Truman Capote's genderings of male homosexuality / Gary Richards

Inscribing a lesbian reader, projecting a lesbian subject : a Jane Rule diptych / Marilyn R. Schuster

Built out of books : lesbian energy and feminist ideology in alternative publishing / Kate Adams

Bertha Harris's Lover : lesbian and postmodern / Amanda C. Gable

Breaking the silence, dismantling taboos : Latin novels on AIDS / Alberto Sandoval Sánchez

Nietzsche, autobiography, history : mourning and Martin and John / John Champagne

Resources for lesbian ethnographic research in the lavender archives / Alisa Klinger

Will to remember : the lesbian herstory archives of New York / Joan Nestle.

Notes:

Published also as v. 34, nos. 3/4 1998 of the Journal of homosexuality.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

1560231025 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

37955738