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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463789703321

Titolo

1960s gay pulp fiction : the misplaced heritage / / edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn, Jaime Harker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-61376-283-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 pages)

Collana

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Disciplina

810.9/920664

Soggetti

Gays' writings, American - History and criticism

Pulp literature, American - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Homosexuality and literature - History - 20th century

Gays in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Poem: How to Read Gay Pulp Fiction; Historicizing Pulp: Gay Male Pulp and the Narrativization of Queer Cultural History; "Accept your Essential Self": The Guild Press, Identity Formation, and Gay Male Community; "Menus for Men . . . Or what have you": Consuming Gay Male Culture in Lou Rand Hogan's the Gay Detective and the Gay Cookbook; "Moonlight and Bosh and Bullshit": Phil Andros's tud and the Creation of a "New Gay Ethic"; Carnal Matters: The Alexander Goodman Story

Guerilla Literature: The Many Worlds of Victor J. Banis Shepherds Redressed: Richard Amory's Song of the Loon and the Reinvigoration of the Spanish Pastoral Novel; "A Life Entirely without Fear": Hindus, Homos, and Gay Pulp Fiction in Christopher Isherwood's A Meeting by the River; Transcendent Submission: Resistance to Oppression in Jay Greene's behind these Walls; The Heroic Quest: Dirk Vanden's All Trilogy; An End to the Way: Pulp Becomes Classic Down-Under;



Appendix: A Sampling of 1960's Gay Pulp Authors; Notes on Contributors; Index; Back Cover