Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture - Homecoming Queens

Zusatztext '...Homecoming Queens offers a positive contribution to not only the field of English and American literary criticism! but also queer studies. By challenging the urban centredness of gay academic work! Dines joins a handful of other scholars who are steering a new direction through the spatialized literature on human sexuality.' - Brent Pilkey! University College London! Gender! Place and Culture Informationen zum Autor MARTIN DINES is Lecturer in Suburban and Cultural Studies at Kingston University, UK. His research interests lie in the relationships between identity, place and narrative in British and American literature and culture. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Straightest Space Imaginable? No Place to Hide: The Suburban Sissy and the American Coming-Out Story Making it Public: Recent British Coming-Out Narratives Wasteland of the Free: New Narrative and the Suburbs The Importance of Being Normal: The Fiction of Suburban Resettlement Sacrilege in the Sitting Room: Contesting Suburban Domesticity Coda: Writing 'Home' Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: M Dines, M. Dines, Martin Dines, Dines Martin
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780230233249
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23324-9
• No. of pages: 225
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Gender Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Sociology, Performing Arts, Communication, Film History, Media and Communication, Media Research, Gender studies, gender groups, Media Sociology, Literature, general, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, culture;fiction;film;media research