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The Queer Renaissance : Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities.

Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the 1970s, when gay and lesbian cultures began to register on our national consciousness, such work was...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McRuer, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 1997.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading the Queer Renaissance; Chapter One Boys' Own Stories and New Spellings of My Name: Coming Out and Other Myths of Queer Positionality; Chapter Two Queer Locations/Queer Transformations; Chapter Three Unlimited Access? Queer Theory in the Borderlands; Chapter Four Queer Identities in a Crisis; Epilogue: Post-Queer?; Notes; Works Cited; Index.