Eminent outlaws, the gay writers who changed America, Christopher Bram
Type
Label
Eminent outlaws, the gay writers who changed America, Christopher Bram
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-354) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Eminent outlaws
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
707964978
Responsibility statement
Christopher Bram
Sub title
the gay writers who changed America
Summary
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: Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, Tony Kushner, and Edward Albee 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
Table Of Contents
Pt. 1. Into the fifties. Innocence ; The kindness of strangers ; Howl ; Soul kiss ; Going Hollywood -- pt. 2. The sixties. The great homosexual theater scare ; The medium is the messsage ; Love and sex and A single man ; The whole world is watching ; Riots -- pt. 3. The seventies. Old and young ; Love song ; Annus mirabilis ; White noise -- pt. 4. The eighties. Illness and metaphor ; Dead poets society ; Tale of two or three cities ; Laughter in the dark -- pt. 5. The nineties and after. Angels ; Rising tide ; High tide -- Rewriting America
Target audience
adult