Gay suburban narratives in American and British culture : homecoming queens /

"Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical and metaphorical spaces of suburbia and the evolution of modern gay identities across a range of British and American film and fiction, looking at the work of Dennis Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Todd Haynes, Christopher Isherwood, Kevin Kil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dines, Martin, 1976-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:	Gay men's writings, American > History and criticism. Gay men's writings, English > History and criticism. Suburbs in literature. Suburbs in motion pictures. Gay men in literature. Gay men in motion pictures. Homosexuality in literature. Homosexuality in motion pictures. Gay men > Identity.

Table of Contents:

The straightest space imaginable?
No place to hide : the suburban sissy and the American coming-out story
Making it public : recent British coming-out narratives
Wasteland of the free : new narrative and the suburbs
The importance of being normal : the fiction of suburban resettlement
Sacrilege in the sitting room : contesting suburban domesticity
Coda : writing home.