The straightest space imaginable? -- No place to hide : the suburban sissy and the American coming-out story -- Making it public : recent British coming-out narratives -- Wasteland of the free : new narrative and the suburbs -- The importance of being normal : the fiction of suburban resettlement -- Sacrilege in the sitting room : contesting suburban domesticity -- Coda : writing home.
Summary:
"Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical and metaphorical spaces of suburbia and the evolution of modern gay identities across a range of British and American film and fiction, looking at the work of Dennis Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Todd Haynes, Christopher Isherwood, Kevin Killian, David Leavitt, Oscar Moore and Edmund White"--Provided by publisher.
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