Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics

By Les Brookes

Book Overview

Arguing that gay fiction is torn between assimilative and radical impulses, this study focuses on fiction by White, Holleran, Leavitt, Cunningham, Hollinghurst, Cooper, Mars-Jones and others, positing the existence of two distinct strands of gay fiction, where opposing impulses are at work within individual texts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415880734
• ISBN13: 9780415880732
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"