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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jordan Alexander Stein © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America . Ed. Thomas A. Foster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 405 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Gay Artists in Modern American Culture...
View articletitled, Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America; <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy; Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History; Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> History
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Black Ground, Gay Figure: Working through Another Country , Black Power, and Gay Liberation
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 577–603.
Published: 01 September 2007
... discussion of a correspondent gay pride begins with a
quotation from Carmichael and Hamilton’s Black Power that links this
notion of pride to the creation of community: “The essential quality
of gay liberation, it seems to me, lies in its assertion of gayness, its
refusal to feel shame...
View articletitled, Black Ground, <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> Figure: Working through Another Country , Black Power, and <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> Liberation
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A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., the figures he discusses include Jason Holliday, Joseph Beam, and James Tinney. Mumford’s book is a wonderful primer for understanding the cultural context of and many important figures in black gay history. His aim is to create “a genealogy of black gayness” (3). To that end Mumford has succeeded, as his...
View articletitled, A Taste for Brown Bodies: <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
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Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity; Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 460–462.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... By Lisa
Walker. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2001. xvii, 279 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper,
$18.50.
Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall. By Christopher...
View articletitled, Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity; Foundlings: Lesbian and <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> Historical Emotion before Stonewall
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Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 883–884.
Published: 01 December 2003
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Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century. By Alan Sinfield.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2000. vii, 407 pp. $29.95.
It is a commonplace to assert that ‘‘the media’’ in the last thirty years has...
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Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance; Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2005
... theme
that efforts to define Whitman as an essentially white or male or gay artist are
reductive. Central to all the plural American literatures, Whitman is used by
artists of differing genders, sexualities, races, and ethnicities. The epigraphs
Price chooses are all admiring, but he is more analyst...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> Voices of the Harlem Renaissance; Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought
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The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture; Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 648–651.
Published: 01 September 2005
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The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture. By David Bergman.
New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xviii, 304 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50.
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. By Roderick A. Ferguson.
Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. x, 175 pp...
View articletitled, The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> Culture; Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
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A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 666–667.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the 1850s offers
much of interest to the lay reader as well as the Asian Americanist. The text,
with its marvellous illustrations, is a useful resource for and a valuable con-
tribution to Chinese American scholarship.
Helena Grice, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
A History of Gay Literature...
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Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America If Memory Serves: Gay Men, Aids, and the Promise of the Queer Past
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 614–616.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Greta LaFleur Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America . By Coviello Peter . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2013 . xiii , 265 pp. Cloth, $85.00 ; paper, $26.00 . If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past...
View articletitled, Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America If Memory Serves: <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> Men, Aids, and the Promise of the Queer Past
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 898–901.
Published: 01 December 2019
... . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2018 . ix, 333 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel . By Natasha Hurley . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2018 . xviii, 320 pp. Cloth, $108.00 ; paper, $27.00 ; e...
View articletitled, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility Circulating Queerness: Before the <span class="search-highlight">Gay</span> and Lesbian Novel Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
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Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Robert F. Reid-Pharr In a reading of Samuel R. Delany's underexamined 1984 science fiction novel, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand , Reid-Pharr uses the work of theorists such as Leo Bersani, Mary Douglas, Orlando Patterson, and Hortense Spillers to question the necessity of gay men's...
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Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... While Ellison’s story featured a gay man named Benny among the protagonists, the game developers adapted Benny without his original sexual identity. In a 2012 Game Informer magazine article, however, the developers reflected on their version of Benny as a “lost opportunity” for exploring gay identity...
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“Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!” Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
Published: 01 June 2011
... movement and the gay liberation movement to figure “mutation” as an expansive form of cultural difference that wedded fantasy to the ideals of radical politics. By linking the fictional category of mutation to lived categories of difference, the X-Men series produced a mainstream popular fantasy...
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New Narrative and the Making of Language Poetry
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 805–832.
Published: 01 December 2009
... demonstrate the need to situate such groups within the history of the American left, moving from the breakdown of grassroots coalitions of the sixties right through debates on the hierarchies of power in cultural life—in particular the critique of Marxian-derived models by gay and lesbian activists. © 2009...
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The New Queer Essentialism
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2011
... to think about the
inherent strangeness of all children.
Stockton begins with a general introduction that catalogs dominant
tropes by which the queer child becomes legible in twentieth-century
literature and culture: the ghostly gay child who haunts the history
of the grown gay man or lesbian...
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Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Legally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 338–341.
Published: 01 June 2021
... to satisfy their own needs. In Legally Straight , Joe Rollins explains how children were used in legal cases involving gay marriage, indicating that we still put children to work, at least discursively. Like Morgenstern’s wild child, the legal child Rollins analyzes purportedly holds the key to survival...
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Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 421–422.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., Catheresque depictions of male friendship, from
‘‘the Greek ideal of a Sacred Band to Whitman’s ‘adhesiveness’ and ‘love of
comrades’ ’’ (131).
Anders’s aims are to ‘‘present the argument for a gay reading...
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Coming Out through History's Hidden Love Letters in Absalom, Absalom !
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 339–366.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to it, stuck in it It haunts us, I suggest, partly because we’re
stilltryingtoavoidthequestionattheheartofitsnarrative,which
is figured in the symbolic threat of interracial gay romance. This
novel’s reception history as well as its own thematized reading prac-
tices confirm that our official histories...
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Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 420–421.
Published: 01 June 2001
... ideal of a Sacred Band to Whitman’s ‘adhesiveness’ and ‘love of
comrades’ ’’ (131).
Anders’s aims are to ‘‘present the argument for a gay reading of Cather’s
texts to ‘‘discuss the homosexual literary...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
... before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. Ed.
Thomas A. Foster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 405 pp. Cloth, $75.00;
paper, $25.00.
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy. By Michael S.
Sherry. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North...
View articletitled, Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic; A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
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