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

by Tison Pugh

Southern literature has long been heralded for its tragic sentiments, in its somber and necessary acknowledgments of the region's tormented past, as it has concomitantly asserted an overarchingly heteronormative vision of Southern life. Yet a pantheon of great authors, ranging from Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Truman Capote to the present-day voices of Florence King, Dorothy Allison, and David Sedaris, collectively attest both to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807162698
• ISBN13: 9780807162699
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"