Ebook: Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics

Arguing that gay fiction is torn between assimilative and radical impulses, this study focuses on fiction by White, Holleran, Leavitt, Cunningham, Hollinghurst, Cooper, Mars-Jones and others, positing the existence of two distinct strands of gay fiction, where opposing impulses are at work within individual texts.;Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: The Contextual Framework; 2 Divergent Lines of Dissent: Wilde to Stonewall; 3 "The Potency, Magnetism, and Promise of Gay Self-Disclosure": Paradise Found?; 4 Centripetal Tendencies: Gays, Heterosexuality, and the Family; 5 The Gay Outlaw: Sexual Radicalism and Transgression; 6 The AIDS Epidemic: Victory to a Virus?; Coda: Pressures of the New Millennium; Appendix: An Interview with Edmund White; Notes; Bibliography; Index.