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Lovers and beloveds : sexual otherness in southern fiction, 1936-1961 / Gary Richards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, Gary, 1969-
- Series:
- Southern literary studies.
- Southern literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.
- Difference (Psychology) in literature.
- Erotic stories, American--History and criticism.
- Erotic stories, American.
- Gay men in literature.
- Homosexuality and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Homosexuality in literature.
- Lesbians in literature.
- Romance fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Romance fiction, American.
- Sexual orientation in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- Louisiana pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2007, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A challenge to traditional criticism, this engaging study demonstrates that issues of sexuality-and same-sex desire in particular-were of central importance in the literary production of the Southern Renaissance. Especially during the end of that period-approximately the 1940's and 1950's the national literary establishment tacitly designated the South as an allowable setting for fictionalized deviancy, thus permitting southern writers tremendous freedom to explore sexual otherness. In Lovers and Beloveds, Gary Richards draws on contemporary theories of sexuality in reading the fiction of six
- Contents:
- Freaks with a voice
- Truman Capote, William Goyen, and the gendering of male homosexuality
- Richard Wright and compulsory Black male heterosexuality
- Lillian Smith and the scripting of lesbian desire
- Harper Lee and the destabilization of heterosexuality
- Carson McCullers and gay/lesbian (non) representation
- Epilogue : other voices, other rooms.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807149089
- 080714908X
- OCLC:
- 781615050
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