Queer commodities
Subtitle: contemporary US fiction, consumer capitalism, and gay and lesbian subcultures
By: Guy Davidson
Series: American lit readings in 21st century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780230340497
Subjects: Social aspects; History and criticism; American literature; Consumption (Economics); Homosexuality in literature
Description: "Queer Commodities is the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it, Guy Davidson argues that while these subcultures are necessarily commodified, they also provide means of subversively negotiating aspects of life under capitalism"--