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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jordan Alexander Stein © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Book Reviews
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...
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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...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of what the author calls “gay modernity” (Pérez, 1). Yet each book contains important readings on gayness in contemporary society and despite their differences could be of complementary use in any queer theory course. Hiram Pérez’s A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire argues...
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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...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 883–884.
Published: 01 December 2003
...
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 614–616.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Greta LaFleur 614 American Literature
Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America. By Peter
Coviello. 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...
Journal Article
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...
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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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 648–651.
Published: 01 September 2005
...
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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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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...
Journal Article
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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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...
Journal Article
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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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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
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