Gay lives : homosexual autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette / Paul Robinson
- Bib ID:
- 282196
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Robinson, Paul A., 1940-
- Description:
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999
- xxiii, 428 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0226721809 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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Paul Robinson reads the memoirs of fourteen French, British, and American gay authors - including Jean Genet, Quentin Crisp, and Martin Duberman - through the prism of sexual identity: How did these men understand their homosexuality? Did they embrace or reject it? How did they express their often conflicted desires, in words ranging from the defiant and brutally frank to the ambiguous and abstract? Robinson shows how all these authors struggled to cope with their sexuality and to reconcile it with prevailing conceptions of masculinity; he considers, through their writings, the choices each man made to accommodate himself to society's homophobia or live in protest against his oppression. And Robinson also discovers national patterns among them as he explores the English obsession with social class and the French association of homosexual attraction with geographical or racial difference.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Man of Letters and the Don: John Addington Symonds and Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds. The Autobiography of G. Lowes Dickinson
- 2. Auden & Co: Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender. Lions and Shadows. World within World. Christopher and His Kind
- 3. The Detective and the Comedian: J. R. Ackerley and Quentin Crisp. My Father and Myself. The Naked Civil Servant
- 4. Three French Novelists: Andre Gide, Jean Genet, and Julien Green. Si le grain ne meurt. Journal du voleur. Jeunes annees
- 5. Two American Diarists: Jeb Alexander and Donald Vining. Jeb and Dash. A Gay Diary
- 6. The Closet and Its Discontents: Andrew Tobias, Martin Duberman, and Paul Monette. The Best Little Boy in the World. Cures. Becoming a Man.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-412) and index.
- Subject:
- Gays -- Biography
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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