Violet Hour - The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture

Informationen zum Autor David Bergman Klappentext The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill -- Andrew Holleran! Felice Picano! Edmund White! Christopher Cox! Michael Grumley! Robert Ferro! and George Whitmore -- collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing during and after the gay liberation movement. David Bergman's social history shows how the works of these authors reflected! advanced! and criticized the values! principles! and prejudices of the culture of gay liberation. In spinning many of the most important stories gay men told of themselves in the short period between the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s! the Violet Quill exerted an enormous influence on gay culture. The death toll of the AIDS epidemic! including four of the Violet Quill's seven members! has made putting such recent events into a historical context all the more important and difficult. The work of the Violet Quill expresses the joy! suffering! grief! hope! activism! and caregiving of their generation. The Violet Hour meets the urgent need for a history of the men who bore witness not only to the birth but also to the decimation of a culture. Zusammenfassung This work offers a testament to the writers who spoke for a generation of gay men in the time between the Stonewall Riots and AIDS. Inhaltsverzeichnis These Shrieking VioletsGay Writing Before the Violet QuillTwo JourneysRace and the Violet QuillBeauty and the BeachLove and SexAIDS

Product details

• Authors: David Bergman, Bergman David, David Bergman
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2004
• EAN: 9780231130516
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13051-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Between Men--Between Women; Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies; Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gay & Lesbian studies, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Of specific Gay interest, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Relating to gay people, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+, Gay Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form