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Stanford University Press Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America (Post*45)

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The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers–James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal–in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1960s. While none of these writers "came out" in our current sense, all contributed, through their public images and their writing, to a greater openness toward homosexuality that was an important precondition of liberation. Their fame was crucial, for instance, to the growing conception of homosexuals as an oppressed minority rather than as individuals with a psychological problem. Challenging scholarly orthodoxies, Guy Davidson urges us to rethink the usual opposition to liberation and to gay and lesbian visibility within queer studies as well as standard definitions of celebrity. The conventional ban on openly discussing the homosexuality of public figures meant that media reporting at the time did not focus on his protagonists' private lives. At the same time, the careers of these "semi-visible" gay celebrities should be understood as a crucial halfway point between the era of the open secret and the present-day post-liberation era in which queer people, celebrities very much included, are enjoined to come out. Review A remarkably detailed star map of pre- and post-Stonewall America, Categorically Famous breaks fresh ground in queer celebrity studies. With exceptional readings of lesbian and gay VIPs, Davidson generates new buzz about how the twinned themes of liberation and luminaries advanced our unstoppable homosexual revolutions.--Scott Herring "Indiana University" Davidson's book is engagingly written, deftly blending historical anecdotes with close readings and theoretical analysis....[His] readings of Baldwin, Sontag, and Vidal are invariably spot-on.--Jordan S. Carroll " Journal of the History of Sexuality " In his incisive account of lesbian and gay identity in the first heyday of our media and celebrity culture, Davidson finds genuinely new and important things to say not only about such iconic figures as Baldwin, Sontag, and Vidal but about making and unmaking queer politics in a time of turmoil not unlike our own.--Michael Moon "Emory University" From the Author Guy Davidson is Associate Professor of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong. About the Author Guy Davidson is Associate Professor of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong.

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Brand: Stanford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1503602354
Category: Books > Subjects > LGBTQ+ Books > Literature & Fiction > Criticism & Reference
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 June 2019
Listed Since: 02 August 2018

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