Title The Queer Sixties

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (628 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Sixties: A Ghost Story; A Short Queer History of the 1960s; Figments and Fragments: The Sixties and the Queer Imagination; Icons and Iconoclasts: A Means of Measuring Our Pain; Designs for Living: Textual Images, Iconic Types, and the Creation of Queer Identity; Taking Care of [Unfinished] Business; Notes; Part I: The Iconographic Subcultural Text: Queer Pulp Fictions; 1. Pulp Politics: Strategies of Vision in Pro-Lesbian Pulp Novels, 1955-1965 Subversion in Pro-Lesbian Pulps: Randy Salem's Man among WomenLesbian Bars as Racial Sights/Sites: Hierarchies of Looking; Man among Women's Conventional Ending: Male Sight Restored; Readerly Ambivalence and Multiple Identifications; Conclusions: Pro-Lesbian Pulps as Lesbian Literature, or. The Advantages of the Obvious; Notes; References; 2. The Cultural Work of Sixties Gay Pulp Fiction; The Song of the Loon; The Man from C.A.M.P.; Realities of Gay Publishing; References; Part II: Ultimate Icon, Ultimate Iconoclast: Andy Warhol and Valerie Solanas 3. New York School's "Out": Andy Warhol Presents Dumb and DumberToying with the Artist-Savants; Artful Dodgers; Playing Dumb about Being Gay; Notes; 4. The "Sweet Assassin" and the Performative Politics of SCUM Manifesto; Performance; The Text; The Event; Technology; Structures of Feeling; Notes; References; Part III: Notes from Abroad: Queer Icons of Swinging London; 5. A Perfectly Developed Playwright: Joe Orton and Homosexual Reform; "Please, Not in Public"; When You're A Boy ... ; Notes; 6. "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me": The Camp Masquerades of Dusty Springfield Afterword: All You Have to Say is "Thank You"Notes; 7. "Give Us a Kiss": Queer Codes, Male Partnering, and the Beatles; A Hard Day's Night: Queer Rides in Unannounced on Surreal's Coattails; The Overtly Queer in A Hard Day's Night; Less Overt Queer Elements: The Threat of the Female in A Hard Day's Night; Homosocial Quality of the Beatles' Male Partnership; The Feminized Manhood of the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night; HELP!: Still Surreal, Still Running from the Threat; Help! and the Overtly Queer; Less Overt Queer in Help!; The Female Threat in Help!; Homosexuality, Epstein, and Lennon Gender Identity and the Real BeatlesNotes; References; Part IV: California Dreaming: Los Angeles and Its Queer Denizens; 8. "I am with You, Little Minority Sister": Isherwood's Queer Sixties; Notes; 9. L.A. Women: Jim Morrison with John Rechy; Prologue: Beat, Noir; Reading Hustlers: Jim and his Johns; Touch me: Morrison's Cocks; Light My Fire: Burning Genders, Electric Weddings; The End: Missed Destinies and the Always Already Dead; Back Doors and Backsides; Ends; Notes; Part V: Icons and Iconoclasts in the Mainstream Summary The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary Notes 10. "(W)right in the Faultlines": The Problematic of Identity in William Wyler's The Children's Hour Print version record Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Gay men in literature. Gay people's writings, American -- History and criticism Gay people's writings, English -- History and criticism Gay people -- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century Lesbians in literature. Nineteen sixties. American literature English literature Gay men in literature Gays' writings, American Gays' writings, English Homosexuality and literature Lesbians in literature Nineteen sixties English-speaking countries Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781136683619 1136683615

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