How does gay male fiction since Stonewall engage with the longstanding conflict in gay culture and politics between assimilationism and radicalism - an opposition described by Jonathan Dollimore as 'one of the most fundamental antagonisms within the politics of sexual dissidence…
Arguing that gay fiction is torn between assimilative and radical impulses, this study focuses on fiction by Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, Michael Cunningham, Alan Hollinghurst, Dennis Cooper, Adam Mars-Jones and others, positing the existence of two distinct str…
"The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. Focusing on fiction by Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, Michael Cunningh…
"The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. Focusing on fiction by Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, Michael Cunningh…