50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (902 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593501196 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Do expect to learn why these titles are must-reads.Rearrange your shelves, book-club lists, and expectations. No longer: Here's the book that cues you in to the essential titles in the gay and lesbian literary canon.Edited by Richard Canning, with a foreword from renowned literary critic Harold Bloom, this volume contains fifty succinct essays by critics, public figures, and authors. Gay topics have been central to most national literary traditions, whether in fiction, memoir, drama, or verse. They illuminate works by fifty men and women that everybody should read.Canning tackles important themes, issues of regional and cultural diversity, political aspects, and analyses of that old chestnut: What makes a work of literature gay or lesbian? Don’t expect a definitive answer. Furthermore, openly gay-themed books tend to get passed over in favor of works more evidently addressing “universal” or “mainstream” concerns. Yet “crossover” su
HE divides his time between London and Sheffield, where he teaches British. Is the editor of Between Men and Between Men 2 series: Original Fictoin by Today's Best Gay Writers and Vital Sign: Essential AIDS Fiction (Da Capo), and Hear Us Out (Columbia UP)
"The Usual Suspects" according to Charlus. Richard Canning starts his intro with an emphatic "This is not a canon". He is being disingenuous of course. What he is saying is that this is not the complete canon, picking out writers not included: Gide, Genet, Forster. But any list of "must read" authors must assume some degree of canonicity, otherwise why write of them? Even Maureen Duffy in her essay on Sappho writes "But we must begin our canon somewhere"(p.17).The essays that follow vary between lit crit and personal essay or some combination of the two. David Plante, in his excellent pi. Should be used with caution. One of the problems I have with this book is it includes Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. When you already have homophobic thinking that gay=child pedophile why the duck would you in included this book? It's no different then Lolita which you wouldn't want to be putting on any list either.For people who want to know other books to read like poems, letters, biology etc then this books find for that. So far the books I did read for fiction I was not too impressed by. Death in Venice=Lolita and should be avoid unless you want to look in the mind of
About the AuthorIs the editor of Between Men and Between Men 2 series: Original Fictoin by Today's Best Gay Writers and Vital Sign: Essential AIDS Fiction (Da Capo), and Hear Us Out (Columbia UP). HE divides his time between London and Sheffield, where he teaches British