Hear Us Out - Conversations With Gay Novelists

Informationen zum Autor Richard Canning Klappentext The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed! diversified! and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Readers will recognize names like Michael Cunningham! whose Pulitzer Prize--winning novel The Hours inspired the hit movie; and others like Christopher Bram! Bernard Cooper! Stephen McCauley! and Matthew Stadler. These accounts explore the vicissitudes of writing on gay male themes in fiction over the last thirty years -- prejudices of the literary marketplace; social and political questions; the impact of AIDS; commonalities between gay male and lesbian fiction... and even some delectable bits of gossip. Zusammenfassung The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed! diversified! and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Inhaltsverzeichnis Gary IndianaBernard CooperChristopher BramMichael CunninghamJim GrimsleyStephen McCauleyColm T¢ib°nPaul RussellPeter CameronMatthew StadlerPhilip HensherDale Peck

Product details

• Authors: Richard Canning, Canning Richard
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.2004
• EAN: 9780231128674
• ISBN: 978-0-231-12867-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies; Between Men--Between Women: Le; Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies; Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies; Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies; Between Men-Between Women: Les
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, American English, Literature: history & criticism, c 1970 to c 1979, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, c 1990 to c 1999, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, c 1980 to c 1989, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+, Literary studies: from c 2000