The queer renaissance : contemporary American literature and the reinvention of lesbian and gay identities

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Label

The queer renaissance : contemporary American literature and the reinvention of lesbian and gay identities

Title remainder

contemporary American literature and the reinvention of lesbian and gay identities

Statement of responsibility

Robert McRuer

Creator

• McRuer, Robert, 1966-

Subject

• Gay men in literature
• Gays -- United States -- Intellectual life
• Gays' writings, American -- History and criticism
• Geschichte 1980-1995
• Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Homosexualität
• Homosexualität (Motiv)
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Lesbians in literature
• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Literatur
• Literature and society -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Queer theory
• Sexual orientation in literature
• Sexuelle Identität
• USA
• United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
• Lesbierin (Motiv)

Language

eng

Summary

• The Queer Renaissance puts a name to the unprecedented outpouring of creative work by openly lesbian and gay novelists, poets, and playwrights in the past two decades. This volume is one of the first to critically analyze this cultural awakening and is one of the only books to consider the work of gay male and lesbian writers together. Most importantly, it is the first book to consider how this wave of creative activity has worked in tandem with a flourishing of radical queer politics
• The Queer Renaissance explores the work of such important figures as Audre Lorde, Edmund White, Randall Kenan, Gloria Anzaldua, Tony Kushner, and Sarah Schulman to question the dichotomy between art and activism. In addition, it interrogates the ways queer theory deploys, intersects with, and contests contemporary theoretical movements such as cultural studies, feminist theory, African American theory, and Chicano/a theory

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PS153.G38

LC item number

M38 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography