Description for Hear Us out
Paperback. The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; 5SG; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 202 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 590.
The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Readers will recognize names like Michael Cunningham, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours inspired the hit movie; and others like Christopher Bram, Bernard Cooper, Stephen McCauley, and Matthew Stadler. These accounts explore the vicissitudes of writing on gay male themes in fiction over the last thirty years-prejudices of the literary marketplace; social and ... Read more
The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Readers will recognize names like Michael Cunningham, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours inspired the hit movie; and others like Christopher Bram, Bernard Cooper, Stephen McCauley, and Matthew Stadler. These accounts explore the vicissitudes of writing on gay male themes in fiction over the last thirty years-prejudices of the literary marketplace; social and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Series
Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231128674
SKU
V9780231128674
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About Richard Canning
Richard Canning is lecturer in English and American literature at Sheffield University. He is author of Gay Fiction Speaks (Columbia, 2001) and writes regularly for The Independent.
Reviews for Hear Us out
Hear Us Out is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews,Gay Fiction Speaks, a standard reference for scholars. That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book... Canning has a wonderful knack for this work.
David McConnell Lambda Book Report Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews
Christopher Hennessy The Gay ... Read more
David McConnell Lambda Book Report Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews
Christopher Hennessy The Gay ... Read more