Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics

by Les Brookes

Book Overview

The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. The conflict predates Stonewall, however-indeed, Jonathan Dollimore describes it as "one of the most fundamental antagonisms within sexual dissidence over the past century." By focusing on fiction by Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, Michael Cunningham,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415880734
• ISBN13: 9780415880732
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"