Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall
Subtitle: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415962445
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; English
Description: "The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. Focusing on fiction by Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, Michael Cunningham, Alan Hollinghurst, Dennis Cooper, Adam Mars-Jones and others, Brookes argues that gay fiction is torn between assimilative and radical impulses. He posits the existence of two distinct strands of gay fiction, but also aims to show the conflict as an internal one, a struggle in which opposing impulses are at work within individual texts."--Jacket.