Unlimited Embrace: A Canon of Gay Fiction, 1945-1995University of Massachusetts Press, 1998 - 338 pagina's In this pathbreaking book, a gay literary critic evaluates a half-century of fictional works "by, for, and about" homosexual men and situates them in the context of an emerging American gay culture. Reed Woodhouse shows how the best gay fiction of the period, like all good literature, not only reflected but anticipated social changes that were afoot -- from the founding of the first enduring gay rights organizations through the Stonewall riots to the ambiguous mainstreaming of homosexuality that continues today. Written in a personal voice, Unlimited Embrace is as much about gay identity as about gay literature. The canon Woodhouse constructs is not merely a list of gay books worth reading, but a guide to "leading a good life as a gay man" as well. In the fiction of Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood, James Purdy, Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Larry Kramer, Ethan Mordden, Dennis Cooper, David Leavitt, and Neil Bartlett, Woodhouse finds intimate glimpses of lives previously veiled in euphemism, slander, and contempt and now striving to take new form. More than that, he raises questions about sexual identity and desire, defiance and wit, that are as relevant to straight readers as to gay ones. Although the book ends with a sober consideration of the literary legacy of AIDS, Unlimited Embrace is more celebration than lament -- an affirmation of the enduring power of literature to shape life. |
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... hard candy ! ” Williams's art , in all his best stories and plays , is one of tone . It is possible to crush them into a readily portable box - homophobia , dysfunctional family , and so on- but the actual stories are far more flexible ...
... Hard Candy " " grotesque and touching " in ways Clum doesn't hear . Nor is Williams “ homophobic " when he tells the ... hard candy , " as the Complete Little Citizen of the World crows ; did not , that is , die of the emotional ...
... Hard Candy ( Williams ) , 36 " Hard Candy " ( Williams ) , 2 , 36 , 37 , 43-50 , 141 , 243 , 248 Hard Times ( Dickens ) , 202 Hardy , Thomas , 14 Hardy , Tom , 305 ; The Green Hotel , 305 Harris , Daniel , 6 ; The Rise and Fall of Gay ...
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Tennessee Williamss Gay Short Stories | 35 |
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