232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, gay culture - its humour, its icons, its desires - has been alive and sometimes even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van Leer puts forward here a series of readings that aim to identify what he calls the "queening" of America, a process by which "rhetorics and situations specific to homosexual culture are presented to a... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Queening of America; Chapter 2 Saint Joe; Chapter 3 The Beast of the Closet; Chapter 4 The Body Negative; Chapter 5 What Lola Got;
Biography
David Van Leer is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Emerson's Epistemology: The Argument of the Esaays.
