Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris (Living Out) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0299230449 ISBN 13: 9780299230449

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009

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"Intimacy as history! I adored these glimpses into gay men's lives, and thank David Bergman for having uncovered them. I only wish I'd had this book decades sooner." - Michael Lowenthal, author of Charity Girl "Bergman has brought together an impressive, diverse cache of source materials in a field which has been written on, but has always lacked a generic anthology. There have been subject- and period-based anthologies, but nothing spanning the 150 years or so of available material in this way." - Richard Canning, University of Sheffield"

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In the first anthology to survey the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman to the present, Gay American Autobiography draws excerpts from letters, journals, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies to provide examples of the best life writing over the last century and a half.
    Volume editor David Bergman guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation of gay writers since the nineteenth century, including a diverse array of American men of African, European, Jewish, Asian, and Latino heritage. Documenting a range of life experiences that encompass tattoo artists and academics, composers and drag queens, hustlers and clerks, it contains accounts of turn-of-the-century transvestites, gay rights activists, men battling AIDS, and soldiers attempting to come out in the army. Each selection provides important insight on the wide spectrum of ways gay men have defined and lived their lives, highlighting how self-awareness changes an author's experience.
    The volume includes an introduction by Bergman and headnotes for each of the nearly forty entries. Bringing many out-of-print and hard-to-find works to new readers, this challenging and comprehensive anthology chronicles American gay history and life struggles over the course of the past 150 years.     Finalist, Lambda Book Award for LGBT Anthology, Lambda Literary Foundation

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• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0299230449
• ISBN 13: 9780299230449
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428
• Herausgeber: Bergman David