The Resource Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America, Christopher Bram
Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America, Christopher Bram
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- Summary
- Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee. In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction captured the nation's imagination. Gore Vidal, the wry, withering chronicler of politics, sex, and history. Tennessee Williams, whose powerful plays rocketed him to the top of the American theater. James Baldwin, the harrowingly perceptive novelist and social critic. Christopher Isherwood, the English novelist who became a thoroughly American novelist. And the exuberant Allen Ginsberg, whose poetry defied censorship and exploded minds. Together, their writing introduced America to gay experience and sensibility, and changed our literary culture. But the change was only beginning. A new generation of gay writers followed, taking more risks and writing about their sexuality more openly. Edward Albee brought his prickly iconoclasm to the American theater. Edmund White laid bare his own life in stylized, autobiographical works. Armistead Maupin wove a rich tapestry of the counterculture, queer and straight. Mart Crowley brought gay men's lives out of the closet and onto the stage. And Tony Kushner took them beyond the stage, to the center of American ideas. In this book the author weaves these men's ambitions, affairs, feuds, loves, and appetites into a single narrative. Chronicling over fifty years of momentous change, from civil rights to Stonewall to AIDS and beyond, this is a tale that reveals how the lives of these men are crucial to understanding the social and cultural history of the American twentieth century
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xi, 372 pages
- Contents
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- Into the Fifties. Innocence ; The kindness of strangers ; Howl ; Soul kiss ; Going Hollywood.
- 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.
- The Seventies. Old and young ; Love song ; Annus mirabilis ; White noise.
- The Eighties. Illness and metaphor ; Dead poets society ; Tale of two or three cities ; Laughter in the dark.
- The Nineties and After. Angels ; Rising tide ; High tide.
- Rewriting America
- Isbn
- 9780446563130
- Label
- Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America
- Title
- Eminent outlaws
- Title remainder
- the gay writers who changed America
- Statement of responsibility
- Christopher Bram
- Subject
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- Geschichte 1950-2010.
- Literatur
- Authors, American -- 20th century
- Homosexualität
- 1900-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Gay authors
- Homosexueller
- Literatur
- American authors
- Schriftsteller
- Geschichte 1950-2010
- Schriftsteller
- Gay men's writings -- History and criticism
- Gay authors -- United States
- USA
- Gays' writings, American -- History and criticism
- Homosexueller
- Authors, American -- 20th century
- USA
- United States
- Gays' writings, American -- History and criticism
- Homosexueller
- USA
- Gay authors -- United States
- Authors, American
- Gays' writings, American
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee. In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction captured the nation's imagination. Gore Vidal, the wry, withering chronicler of politics, sex, and history. Tennessee Williams, whose powerful plays rocketed him to the top of the American theater. James Baldwin, the harrowingly perceptive novelist and social critic. Christopher Isherwood, the English novelist who became a thoroughly American novelist. And the exuberant Allen Ginsberg, whose poetry defied censorship and exploded minds. Together, their writing introduced America to gay experience and sensibility, and changed our literary culture. But the change was only beginning. A new generation of gay writers followed, taking more risks and writing about their sexuality more openly. Edward Albee brought his prickly iconoclasm to the American theater. Edmund White laid bare his own life in stylized, autobiographical works. Armistead Maupin wove a rich tapestry of the counterculture, queer and straight. Mart Crowley brought gay men's lives out of the closet and onto the stage. And Tony Kushner took them beyond the stage, to the center of American ideas. In this book the author weaves these men's ambitions, affairs, feuds, loves, and appetites into a single narrative. Chronicling over fifty years of momentous change, from civil rights to Stonewall to AIDS and beyond, this is a tale that reveals how the lives of these men are crucial to understanding the social and cultural history of the American twentieth century
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bram, Christopher
- Dewey number
- 810.9/9206640904
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS153.G38
- LC item number
- B73 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gays' writings, American
- Authors, American
- Gay authors
- Authors, American
- Gay authors
- Gays' writings, American
- United States
- Literatur
- Homosexualität
- Homosexueller
- Schriftsteller
- USA
- Homosexueller
- Literatur
- USA
- Schriftsteller
- Homosexueller
- USA
- Gay men's writings
- American authors
- Gays' writings, American
- Authors, American
- Gay authors
- Label
- Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America, Christopher Bram
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-354) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Into the Fifties. Innocence ; The kindness of strangers ; Howl ; Soul kiss ; Going Hollywood. -- 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. -- The Seventies. Old and young ; Love song ; Annus mirabilis ; White noise. -- The Eighties. Illness and metaphor ; Dead poets society ; Tale of two or three cities ; Laughter in the dark. -- The Nineties and After. Angels ; Rising tide ; High tide. -- Rewriting America
- Control code
- ocn707964978
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xi, 372 pages
- Isbn
- 9780446563130
- Lccn
- 2011029910
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780446563130
- (OCoLC)707964978
- Label
- Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America, Christopher Bram
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-354) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Into the Fifties. Innocence ; The kindness of strangers ; Howl ; Soul kiss ; Going Hollywood. -- 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. -- The Seventies. Old and young ; Love song ; Annus mirabilis ; White noise. -- The Eighties. Illness and metaphor ; Dead poets society ; Tale of two or three cities ; Laughter in the dark. -- The Nineties and After. Angels ; Rising tide ; High tide. -- Rewriting America
- Control code
- ocn707964978
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xi, 372 pages
- Isbn
- 9780446563130
- Lccn
- 2011029910
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780446563130
- (OCoLC)707964978
Subject
- 1900-1999
- American authors
- Authors, American
- Authors, American -- 20th century
- Authors, American -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Gay authors
- Gay authors -- United States
- Gay authors -- United States
- Gay men's writings -- History and criticism
- Gays' writings, American
- Gays' writings, American -- History and criticism
- Gays' writings, American -- History and criticism
- Geschichte 1950-2010
- Geschichte 1950-2010.
- Homosexualität
- Homosexueller
- Homosexueller
- Homosexueller
- Literatur
- Literatur
- Schriftsteller
- Schriftsteller
- USA
- USA
- USA
- United States
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