The Pilgrim's Art of Failure and Belonging - Dialogues between Bunyan and Queer Studies

First I consider three gay American writers. [...]the journalist Jeffrey Chu has just published Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America (2013), which takes up the doubled question of gay in-/exclusion within the church and in the process offers the te...

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Published inBunyan studies no. 18; p. 61
Main Author Breen, Margaret Sönser
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2014
Subjects
British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Bunyan, John (1628-88)
English literature
Hirschfeld, Magnus (1868-1935)
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Summary:First I consider three gay American writers. [...]the journalist Jeffrey Chu has just published Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America (2013), which takes up the doubled question of gay in-/exclusion within the church and in the process offers the testimonies of a range of gay and lesbian faithful. [...]the title speaks to Doty's understanding of the AIDS memoir itself, which as a record of life and loss and love, proves itself to be an aesthetic manifestation of queer time. [...]queers understand their relation to time as complex.
ISSN:0954-0970