Precious Perversions : Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon /

The tragic sentiment of Southern literature and its heteronormative perspective are foundational attributes generally accepted by both popular and scholarly audiences. Yet a pantheon of great authors ranging from like Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Truman Capote to present-day voices of A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pugh, Tison (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature.
Humor in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
Southern States > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Precious Perversions; 1 Camp Sadomasochism in Tennessee Williams's Plays; 2 Laughing with Truman Capote: Insult, Camp, and Gothic Excess; 3 Florence King's Queer Conservatism and the Gender Politics of Southern Humor; 4 Rita Mae Brown's Queer Feminism and the Gender Politics of Southern Humor; 5 Dorothy Allison's Bravado and the Comic Limits of Trauma; 6 David Sedaris's Humor of the Postsouthern South: Place, Race, and Queer Desire; Conclusion: Precious Perversions and the Southern Literary Canon; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
  • HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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