The Queer Renaissance : Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities

McRuer, Robert

ISBN 10: 0814755550 / ISBN 13: 9780814755556

Published by New York University Press, New York and London, 1997

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New York and London: New York University Press, 1997. As New condition. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. 6" wide by 9" tall. Trade paperback. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Publisher's pictorial wraps. From the rear cover: "THE QUEER RENAISSANCE puts a name to the unprecedented outpouring of creative work by openly lesbian and gay novelists, poets, and playwrights in the past two decades. This volume is one of the first to analyze critically this cultural awakening and is one of the only books to consider the work of gay male and lesbian writers together. Most importantly, it is the first book to consider how this wave of creative activity has worked in tandem with a flourishing of radical queer politics. THE QUEER RENAISSANCE explores the work of such important figures as Audre Lorde, Edmund White, Randall Kenan, Gloria Anzaldua, Tony Kushner, and Sarah Schulman to question the dichotomy between art and activism. In addition, it interrogates the ways queer theory deploys, intersects with, and contests contemporary theoretical movements such as cultural studies, feminist theory, African American theory, and Chicano/a theory.". First Edition. Soft Cover. As New condition. xi, 257pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Queer Renaissance : Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities
• Publisher: New York University Press, New York and London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814755550
• ISBN 13: 9780814755556
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New condition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism

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Synopsis

Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the 1970s, when gay and lesbian cultures began to register on our national consciousness, such work was still quite rare.
In the 1980s and 90s, however, all that changed. The Queer Renaissance puts a name to the unprecedented outpouring of creative work by openly lesbian and gay novelists, poets, and playwrights in the past two decades. This volume is one of the first to analyze critically this cultural awakening and is one of the only books to consider the work of gay male and lesbian writers together. Most importantly, The Queer Renaissance is the first book to consider how this wave of creative activity has worked in tandem with a flourishing of radical queer politics.
The Queer Renaissance explores the work of such important figures as Audre Lorde, Edmund White, Randall Kenan, Gloria Anzalda, Tony Kushner, and Sarah Schulman to question the dichotomy between art and activism. In addition, The Queer Renaissance interrogates the ways queer theory deploys, intersects with, and contests contemporary theoretical movements such as cultural studies, feminist theory, African American theory, and Chicano/a theory.

About the Author

Robert McRuer is Professor of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (both also available from NYU Press). With Anna Mollow, he co-edited the anthology Sex and Disability.