Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture: Homecoming Queens

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Author: Kristina Hagstrm Sthl

ISBN-10: 0230233244

ISBN-13: 9780230233249

Category: General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism

Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical and metaphorical spaces of suburbia and the evolution of modern gay identities across a range of British and American film and fiction, looking at the work of Dennis Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Todd Haynes, Christopher Isherwood, Kevin Killian, David Leavitt, Oscar Moore and Edmund White.

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Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical and metaphorical spaces of suburbia and the evolution of modern gay identities across a range of British and American film and fiction, looking at the work of Dennis Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Todd Haynes, Christopher Isherwood, Kevin Killian, David Leavitt, Oscar Moore and Edmund White.

IntroductionThe Straightest Space Imaginable?No Place to Hide: The Suburban Sissy and the American Coming-Out StoryMaking it Public: Recent British Coming-Out NarrativesWasteland of the Free: New Narrative and the SuburbsThe Importance of Being Normal: The Fiction of Suburban ResettlementSacrilege in the Sitting Room: Contesting Suburban DomesticityCoda: Writing 'Home'NotesIndex