Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Literature

Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Beyond Sex and Romance?: Lesbian Relationships in Contemporary Fiction
  • Love and War: Gay Drama at the Turn of the Century
  • History and Queer Consciousness: The Dialectics of Gay Identity in U.S. Literature
• Criticism: Contemporary Gay Literature
  • The Ambiviolent Fiction of Severo Sarduy
  • Andrew Holleran: Dancer from the Dance and Nights in Aruba
  • David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes
  • Sexuality Degree Zero: Pleasure and Power in the Novels of John Rechy, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava
  • Reports of Looting and Insane Buggery behind Altars: John Ashbery's Queer Poetics
  • Richard Rodriguez Reconsidered: Queering the Sissy (Ethnic) Subject
• Criticism: Lesbianism In Contemporary Literature
  • Desperately Seeking Susan(na): Closeted Quests and Mozartean Gender Bending in Brigid Brophy's The King of a Rainy Country
  • Lesbian Writers in the Mainstream: Sara Maitland, Jeanette Winterson and Emma Donoghue
  • Worlds In and Out of Balance: Alternative Genders and Gayness in the Almanac of the Dead and The Beet Queen
  • ‘As Purple to Lavender’: Alice Walker's Womanist Representation of Lesbianism
• Further Reading