1960s queer literature
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erotic fiction history
erotic pulp analysis
erotic storytelling and censorship
forgotten gay writers
gay and lesbian literary contrasts
gay authors of the 1960s
gay detective stories
gay fiction and social change
gay genre fiction
gay literary criticism
gay popular fiction
gay pulp fiction
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historical queer narratives
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LGBTQ book history
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marginalized queer voices
military fiction and sexuality
neglected queer texts
overlooked gay fiction
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political and cultural context of gay fiction
political novels by gay authors
postal restrictions on literature
pre-Stonewall literature
pre-Stonewall queer culture
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queer gothic novels
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- ISBN 9781625340450
- Weight: 466g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 23 Dec 2013
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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As a result of a series of court cases, by the mid-1960s the U.S. post office could no longer interdict books that contained homosexuality. Gay writers were eager to take advantage of this new freedom, but the only houses poised to capitalise on the outpouring of manuscripts were “adult” paperback publishers who marketed their products with salacious covers. Gay critics, unlike their lesbian counterparts, have for the most part declined to take these works seriously, even though they cover an enormous range of genres: adventures, blue-collar and grey-flannel novels, coming-out stories, detective fiction, gothic novels, historical romances, military stories, political novels, prison fiction, romances, satires, sports stories, and spy thrillers-with far more short story collections than is generally realised. Twelve scholars have now banded together to begin a recovery of this largely forgotten explosion of gay writing that occurred in the 1960s.
Descriptions of these pulps have often been inadequate and misinforming, the result of misleading covers, unrepresentative sampling of texts, and a political blindness that refuses to grant worth to pre-Stonewall writing. This volume charts the broader implications of this state of affairs before examining some of the more significant pulp writers from the period. It brings together a diverse range of scholars, methodologies, and reading strategies. The evidence that these essays amass clearly demonstrates the significance of gay pulps for gay literary history, queer cultural studies, and book history.
Descriptions of these pulps have often been inadequate and misinforming, the result of misleading covers, unrepresentative sampling of texts, and a political blindness that refuses to grant worth to pre-Stonewall writing. This volume charts the broader implications of this state of affairs before examining some of the more significant pulp writers from the period. It brings together a diverse range of scholars, methodologies, and reading strategies. The evidence that these essays amass clearly demonstrates the significance of gay pulps for gay literary history, queer cultural studies, and book history.
Drewey Wayne Gunn is professor emeritus of English at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and author of The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film.
Jaime Harker is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is author of Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America and America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007).
Jaime Harker is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is author of Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America and America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007).
