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03987aam a2200409 i 4500 001 06C6EAB4621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170706010219 008 170419s2017 mnuaf b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2016059310 020 $a 0816696799 020 $a 9780816696796 020 $a 0816696829 020 $a 9780816696826 035 $a (OCoLC)962254248 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d SFR $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3505 A59 Z878 2017 100 1 $a Solomon, Jeff, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a So famous and so gay : $b the fabulous potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein / $c Jeff Solomon. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xvi, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and exclusively gay, built their outsize reputations on works that directly featured homosexuality and a queer aesthetic. How did these writers become mass-market celebrities while other gay public figures were closeted or censored? And what did their fame mean for queer writers and readers, and for the culture in general? Jeff Solomon explores these questions in So Famous and So Gay. Celebrating lesbian partnership, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was published in 1933 and rocketed Stein, the Jewish lesbian intellectual avant-garde American expatriate, to international stardom and a mass-market readership. Fifteen years later, when Capote published Other Voices, Other Rooms, a novel of explicit homosexual sex and love, his fame itself became famous. Through original archival research, Solomon traces the construction and impact of the writers' public personae from a gay-affirmative perspective. He historically situates author photos, celebrity gossip, and other ephemera to explain how Stein and Capote expressed homosexuality and negotiated homophobia through the fleeting depiction of what could not be directly written--maneuvers that other gay writers such as Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and James Baldwin could not manage at the time. Finally So Famous and So Gay reveals what Capote's and Stein's debuts, Other Voices, Other Rooms and Three Lives, held for queer readers in terms of gay identity and psychology--and for gay authors who wrote in their wake"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Prologue: Beneath the Mask -- Introduction: Stein and Capote in Theory -- Part I -- 1. Young, Effeminate, and Strange: The Debut of Truman Capote -- 2. Capote, Forster, and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Mid-Century -- Part II -- 3. Gertrude Stein, Opium Queen: Notes on a Mistaken Embrace -- 4. Gertrude Stein in Life and TIME: A Respectable Commodity -- 5. Three Lesbian Lives: A Map of Same-Sex Passion -- Coda: Janet Malcolm and Woody Allen Adrift in the Past -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. 600 10 $a Capote, Truman, $d 1924-1984 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Stein, Gertrude, $d 1874-1946 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Homosexuality and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Gays' writings, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Gay authors $z United States. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Solomon, Jeff, 1968- author. $t So famous and so gay $d Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017] $z 9781452915678 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011032.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170907010710.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06C6EAB4621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search