Village dreams : a (critical) view from the '60s and '70s / Jay Quint.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quint, Jay, author.

Series:

Essential essays series ; 89.

Essential essays ; 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--Social conditions--20th century.

Gay people.

Gay community.

Sociology, Urban.

urban sociology.

Genre:

essays.

Essays.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Chicago ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2026.

Summary:

"Village Dreams is about the famous Gay Villages--but it is not a history of them. The book reconjures the critical juncture between the collapse of the 60s youth movements and the emergence of The Villages, as well as the zeitgeist that prevailed within them in the 70s, in order to readvance the best of the era's cultural criticism; in so doing, the sources of present-day contradictions are illuminated. Drawing on Baudelaire, Proust, Benjamin, Camus, Arendt, Mailer, Sontag, Wolfe and others, and using photographs (pulled up using QR codes and webpages for an innovative new form of "interactive reading"), Village Dreams takes readers on an unexpected and thoroughly unconventional spree through the quintessential themes of time and memory, urbanism, and counterculture."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-207).

Other Format:

Online version: Quint, Jay. Village dreams.

ISBN:

9781778490323

1778490328

OCLC:

1534728257