Literature and Homosexuality
Published on 1. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
282 pages
978-90-420-0519-8 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0519-8 (9789042005198)
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Introduction. 1. Tara PRINCE-HUGHES: Worlds In and Out of Balance: Alternative Genders and Gayness in the Almanac of the Dead and The Beet Queen. 2. Kemp WILLIAMS: The Metaphorical Construction of Sexuality in Giovanni's Room. 3. Angela FRATTAROLA: Frustration and Silence in Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar. 4. Roger BOWEN: Squalid With Joy: Scobie, Sex, And Race In Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. 5. Kathy PHILLIPS: Between the Third Sex and the Third Reich: Brecht's Early Works. 6. Thomas MARCH: A Viable Alternative: Homosexuality as Fantastic Narrative in E.M. Forster's Little Imber. 7. Ana Maria FRAILE-MARCOS: 'As Purple to Lavender': Alice Walker's Womanist Representation of Lesbianism. 8. Dean SHACKELFORD: Is There a Gay Man in This Text?: Subverting the Closet in A Streetcar Named Desire. 9. Ernest SMITH: Spending out the Self: Homosexuality and the Poetry of Hart Crane. 10. Consuelo ARIAS: Writing the Female Body in the Texts of Cristina Peri Rossi: Excess, Monumentality and Fluidity. 11. Thomas PEELE: Queering Mrs. Dalloway. 12. David COAD: Lesbian Overtones In Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories. 13. Timothy LIBRETTI: History and Queer Consciousness: The Dialectics of Gay Identity in U.S. Literature.