Eminent Outlaws
The Gay Writers Who Changed America
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Description:
In the years following World War II, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come, and transforming the American literary landscape forever. In EMINENT OUTLAWS , novelist Christopher Bram brilliantly chronicles the rise of gay consciousness in American writing. Beginning with a first wave of major gay literary figures-Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, and James Baldwin-he shows how (despite criticism and occasional setbacks) these pioneers set the stage for new generations of gay writers to build on what they had begun: Christopher Isherwood, Edmund White, and Tony Kushner, among them. Weaving together the crosscurrents, feuds, and subversive energies that provoked these writers to greatness, EMINENT OUTLAWS is a rich and essential work. With keen insights, it takes readers through fifty years of momentous change: from a time when being a homosexual was a crime in forty-nine states and into an age of same-sex marriage and the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Details:
- Subject Development: Gay/Lesbian
- Geographic Designator: United States
- Academic Level: General Adult
- Depth (m): 0.032
- Dewey: 810.9/9206640904
- Edition: 1
- Height (m): 0.241
- Pages: 372
- Place Of Publication: United States
- Published Date: Thu 2 Feb 2012
- Weight (g): 590
- Width (m): 0.159
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