1st Edition

Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics

By Les Brookes Copyright 2009
244 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. The conflict predates Stonewall, however—indeed, Jonathan Dollimore describes it as "one of the most fundamental antagonisms within sexual dissidence over the past century." By focusing on fiction by Edmund... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Gay Male Fiction since Stonewall: The Contextual Framework

Chapter Two: Divergent Lines of Dissent: Wilde to Stonewall

Chapter Three: "The Potency, Magnetism and Promise of Gay Self-Disclosure": Paradise Found?

Chapter Four: Centripetal Tendencies: Gays, Heterosexuality and the Family

Chapter Five: The Gay Outlaw: Sexual Radicalism and Transgression

Chapter Six: The AIDS Epidemic: Victory to a Virus?

Coda: Pressures of the New Millennium

Appendix: An Interview with Edmund White

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Les Brookes is an associate lecturer at The Open University, tutoring in twentieth-century literature.  He has written articles for Overhere: A European Journal of American Culture and given papers at Warwick University and the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.