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Gay suburban narratives in American and British culture : homecoming queens
- Title
- Gay suburban narratives in American and British culture : homecoming queens / Martin Dines.
- Author
- Dines, Martin, 1976-
- Publication
- Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 216 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical and metaphorical spaces of suburbia and the evolution of modern gay identities across a range of British and American film and fiction, looking at the work of Dennis Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Todd Haynes, Christopher Isherwood, Kevin Killian, David Leavitt, Oscar Moore and Edmund White"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The straightest space imaginable? -- No place to hide : the suburban sissy and the American coming-out story -- Making it public : recent British coming-out narratives -- Wasteland of the free : new narrative and the suburbs -- The importance of being normal : the fiction of suburban resettlement -- Sacrilege in the sitting room : contesting suburban domesticity -- Coda : writing home.
- Call Number
- JFD 10-512
- ISBN
- 9780230233249 (hardback)
- 0230233244 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2009044523
- OCLC
- YBP 2009044523
- Author
- Dines, Martin, 1976-
- Title
- Gay suburban narratives in American and British culture : homecoming queens / Martin Dines.
- Imprint
- Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 10-512