"With a Special Emphasis": The Dynamics of (Re)Claiming a Queer Southern Renaissance

More and more scholarship has interrogated same-sex desire in Southern culture and literary production, both within the so-called Southern Renaissance and beyond its debated ends. Richards seeks to add to this overdue process not by analyzing a particular set of representations in a given text or te...

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Published inThe Mississippi quarterly Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 209 - 229
Main Author RICHARDS, GARY
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Mississippi State MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY 01.04.2002
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
American literature
Capote, Truman (1924-1984)
Culture
Feinberg, David B
LGBTQ literature
Literary criticism
Literature
Vidal, Gore (1925-2012)
Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier Williams) (1911-1983)
Southern states
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Summary:More and more scholarship has interrogated same-sex desire in Southern culture and literary production, both within the so-called Southern Renaissance and beyond its debated ends. Richards seeks to add to this overdue process not by analyzing a particular set of representations in a given text or texts but rather by focusing on how strategic presumptions, impositions, and/or denials of queerness dictated and often continue to dictate and canonicity of this era's literature and its authors as well as their places within broader understandings of national literary production.
ISSN:0026-637X
2689-517X