Gay suburban narratives in American and British culture : homecoming queens

• Main Author: Dines, Martin, 1976- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
• Subjects: homosexualita a literatura; gayové; homosexualita a společnost > Spojené státy americké; homosexualita a společnost > Velká Británie; anglická literatura; americká literatura; homosexuality and literature; gay men; homosexuality and society > United States; homosexuality and society > Great Britain; English literature; American literature; studie; studies
• ISBN: 9780230233249
• Physical Description: ix, 216 s. : il. ; 23 cm

"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 Kil...

Table of Contents:

• 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