Gay suburban narratives in American and British culture: homecoming queens

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. INDICE: 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 -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23324-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 232
• Fecha Publicación: 12/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés