Gay suburban narratives in American and British culture homecoming queens

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 -- Sac...

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1. Verfasser: Dines, Martin (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke u.a. Palgrave Macmillan c2010
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Zusammenfassung: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.
"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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:IX, 216 S.
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23 cm
ISBN:9780230233249
978-0-230-23324-9
0230233244
0-230-23324-4