Beschreibung:
Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical and metaphorical spaces of suburbia and the evolution of modern gay identities across a range of British and American film and fiction, looking at the work of Dennis Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Todd Haynes, Christopher Isherwood, Kevin Killian, David Leavitt, Oscar Moore and Edmund White.
A comprehensive examination of the significance of suburbia in gay fiction, film, television and autobiography since the 1960s
Introduction The Straightest Space Imaginable? No Place to Hide: The Suburban Sissy and the American Coming-Out Story Making it Public: Recent British Coming-Out Narratives Wasteland of the Free: New Narrative and the Suburbs The Importance of Being Normal: The Fiction of Suburban Resettlement Sacrilege in the Sitting Room: Contesting Suburban Domesticity Coda: Writing 'Home' Notes Index