Gay suburban narratives in American and British culture
Subtitle: homecoming queens
By: Martin Dines.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780230233249
Subjects: Gay men's writings, American -- History and criticism; Gay men's writings, English -- History and criticism; Suburbs in literature; Suburbs in motion pictures; Gay men in literature; Gay men in motion pictures; Homosexuality in literature; Homosexuality in motion pictures; Gay men -- Identity
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: The Straightest Space Imaginable?No Place to Hide: The Suburban Sissy and Conventional Coming-out TrajectoriesThe Expanding Metropolis: Suburban Reconciliation in Recent British Coming-out NarrativesWasteland of the Free: New Narrative and the SuburbsThe Importance of Being Normal: The Fiction of Gay Suburban ResettlementSacrilege in the Sitting-Room: Contesting Suburban DomesticityCoda: Writing HomeAppendixBibliography Notes Index.