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1960s gay pulp fiction : the misplaced heritage / edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn, Jaime Harker.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
- Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people's writings, American--History and criticism.
- Gay people's writings, American.
- Pulp literature, American--History and criticism.
- Pulp literature, American.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Homosexuality and literature--History--20th century.
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Gay people in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As a result of a series of court cases, by the mid-1960s the U.S.post office could no longer interdict books that contained homosexuality.Gay writers were eager to take advantage of this new freedom, but the only houses poised to capitalize on the outpouring of manuscripts were "adult" paperback publishers who marketed their products with.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Poem: How to Read Gay Pulp Fiction; Historicizing Pulp: Gay Male Pulp and the Narrativization of Queer Cultural History; "Accept your Essential Self": The Guild Press, Identity Formation, and Gay Male Community; "Menus for Men . . . Or what have you": Consuming Gay Male Culture in Lou Rand Hogan's the Gay Detective and the Gay Cookbook; "Moonlight and Bosh and Bullshit": Phil Andros's tud and the Creation of a "New Gay Ethic"; Carnal Matters: The Alexander Goodman Story
- Guerilla Literature: The Many Worlds of Victor J. Banis Shepherds Redressed: Richard Amory's Song of the Loon and the Reinvigoration of the Spanish Pastoral Novel; "A Life Entirely without Fear": Hindus, Homos, and Gay Pulp Fiction in Christopher Isherwood's A Meeting by the River; Transcendent Submission: Resistance to Oppression in Jay Greene's behind these Walls; The Heroic Quest: Dirk Vanden's All Trilogy; An End to the Way: Pulp Becomes Classic Down-Under; Appendix: A Sampling of 1960's Gay Pulp Authors; Notes on Contributors; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-283-6
- OCLC:
- 872122280
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